I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
“I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.”
The World Motivation
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
“I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.”
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.