When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM

This is a fun post, I appreciate the mentions. Matt missed my later piece from How-To Geek where I talked to Stan Honey and the Etak engineers again, then interviewed Asteroids designer Ed Logg, and he sent he his original sketch for the cursor. Indeed, his inspiration was Space War.

https://www.howtogeek.com/696738/did-you-know-the-gps-triang...

> "When you’re driving around in Google Maps"

?!

A perfect example of failure of perspective. No one is driving "in" goggle maps, their driving IRL, goggle is plotting the location.

This is certainly a more valid connection than the connection to spacewar.

The failure to recoqnize this error in perspective is a fundamental root cause of millenial disease: "the inability to understand that physical reality hosts all other 'virtual' realities"...

I can't tell if this is profound or not. It's just an arrowhead.