Howabout a Google Ear, rather than a Google Car? I imagine an enormous ear driving round, picking up all the noises and conversations, all the interactions that constitute our everyday life. Just an intrusive maybe, but more true to the complex, temporal nature of our existence. To some extent Thomson and Craighead have done something on these lines in their short film Flat Earth. If you click here you will get the essay I wrote for Animate, the commissioning agency, about Flat Earth. In the film blog entries are juxtaposed with zooms onto a Google Earth style representation of the globe. T + C's film reminds us that the spaces represented by Google Earth are filled with people with complex interior lives and desires.