I had the opportunity to talk to one of devs who created Terravision, an awesome guy. It really made hate Google... I feel guilty for being so deep involved and dependent of this whole G environment.
TerraVision (1994)
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Re: TerraVision (1994)
#12I just finished watching the "The Billion Dollar Code" as well. I'm not sure how dramatized the events in the series were, but if even half of it's true then it's pretty damning. From what I can tell, TerraVision was totally legit, and it's pretty shocking to imagine how different our world can be if their founders found the kind of support someone from Silicon Valley could have found.
Actually, it's quite impressing when we try to find the real version of this the story, or more information about this subject, we can't find many thing on internet... I'm not trying to create any conspiracy theory, but it's quite weird how a such thing has passed under the internet radar.
Re: TerraVision (1994)
#13This is SRI’s (formerly Stanford Research Institute) project with the same name also from 1994 that showed similar capabilities and was one of the reasons the court decided against the claimants in their lawsuit against Google. https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/778.pdf
Thanks for this link. Just watched the Netflix series and was discouraged. This appears to be simultaneous serendipity based on the Stanford paper. Unless the Stanford team includes some Berlin overlap.
Berlin team met with Stephen Lau of SRI and got a copy of SRI's source code in 1995. That's the overlap.