The invisible anti-world of "Google Earth" (Swiss Press Text 2019, by Lorenzo De Carli) - Swiss Press Award
Azione (Settimanale edito da Migros Ticino)
Text
2019
Lorenzo De Carli
Google has created the conditions for making information navigable using geographical criteria, and geography navigable using informational criteria. The article begins with the case of Saroo Brierley, a young Indian orphan who finds his way home using Google Maps. In a time of "crisis of cartographic reason," Google Maps superimposes the virtual onto the real.
