Comments on: Getting where? http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/05/10/getting-where/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.spaceandculture.org/2006/05/10/getting-where/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Anonymous Fri, 12 May 2006 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/?p=476#comment-104 "'If you only give people a six-by-six-inch screen, how can they get a sense of where they are, or where they fit in? We’re pushing the next generation into geographic illiteracy by not giving them a sense of what world geography is.'"<br/><br/>I think something like google earth is quite the opposite of that. When you can zoom it to a city block and out to the entire globe or fly from one place to another a six-by-six-inch screen doesn't seem so little. “‘If you only give people a six-by-six-inch screen, how can they get a sense of where they are, or where they fit in? We’re pushing the next generation into geographic illiteracy by not giving them a sense of what world geography is.’”

I think something like google earth is quite the opposite of that. When you can zoom it to a city block and out to the entire globe or fly from one place to another a six-by-six-inch screen doesn’t seem so little.

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