{"id":1595,"date":"2007-03-05T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2007-03-05T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T20:19:02","slug":"google-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/05\/google-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/areoquay1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a> is perhaps the most wonderful thing I run on my computer. Just two or three years ago, the way I can sit here and swoop down and look at nearly anything in the world from above &#8212; from the house I grew up in to Warren Beatty&#8217;s house on Mulholland Drive &#8212; would have seemed like a sci-fi fantasy. And the best part is it&#8217;s free, and not too different from the industrial-strength version Wolf Blitzer uses on CNN&#8217;s melodramatic<em> Situation Room<\/em>. It&#8217;s one of the few programs I run on this G4 PowerBook that causes it to react physically &#8212; it gets very hot, the fan comes on and I&#8217;m certain I&#8217;ve seen a few drops of sweat roll off it &#8212; so you know some powerful things are happening inside to make all this possible.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures of Toronto are a few years old, so until they update them, you can take a psychogeographic time-machine back a little bit and see how quickly the city has changed. My favorite view is of Pearson, where the magnificent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_01.05.06\/city\/stroll.php\">Aeroquay One<\/a> is about half gone as the new terminal&#8217;s piers rise up around it. It also shows just how big the new place is when compared to a building I used to think of as huge. 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