Google Streetview — the Internet giant’s new mapping service that goes beyond regular mapping and gets way, way close up — usually inspires two reactions, often simultaneously. One is a general, benign “wow-neato” sensation, and the other is “Holy shit. This is the next stepping stone on the way to real life becoming more and more like Minority Report.” But in any case, you probably thought it’d be a while before the Google Streetview cameras set their sights on our little burgh. Wrong-o, buddy boy. A Gizmodo reader spotted one of the roving Google vans somewhere off the Market-Frankford line yesterday, so now the real fun begins. (Item for discussion: What’s scarier, Google vans or child molester vans?) You have to wonder — what’s going to be going on the day the Google vans capture, say, La Columbe? Or the line outside Community Court? Better still: the offices of Cashman & Associates? The mind wobbles. In any case, we wanna say, “Look sharp, Philadelphia!” But, yeah, we kinda know better. Just try not to be picking your nose when the Google van goes by.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 at 12:17 pm.