https://danielebailo.github.io/tags/research/Recent content in Research on Daniele BailoHugo -- 0.150.1it-ITSat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://danielebailo.github.io/en/news/google-il-rocco-siffredi-della-tecnologia-egu2/Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://danielebailo.github.io/en/news/google-il-rocco-siffredi-della-tecnologia-egu2/<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://danielebailo.github.io/en/news/google-il-rocco-siffredi-della-tecnologia-egu2/images/Rocco_Siffredi_-_Lucca_Comics__Games_2016-214x300.jpg"></p> <p>What does Rocco Siffredi have to do with Google and technology?</p> <p>The common point is clear: the display of enormous power, sexual in one case and computational in the other. I leave it to the reader to guess which one is Google and which one is Siffredi.</p> <p>The parallel appeared very clearly in my mind when I listened to a talk here at <a href="http://www.egu2013.eu/">EGU</a> (<a href="http://danielebailo.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/un-congresso-di-geoscienziati-alias-egu-1/">read this post to discover what EGU is</a>) about Google&rsquo;s new search and computation engine for Earth sciences, <a href="http://earthengine.google.org/">EarthEngine</a>.</p> <p>IMAGE By Niccolo Caranti (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons</p>