The Billion Pfennig Code.

Was Google Earth Stolen? (no) (via johnmccrea.medium.com).

SGI built a public-facing demo called “From Space to [Your] Face” shown in 1996 or earlier that zoomed in from space to a 3D spot in the Alps, just like TerraVision and Google Earth (but constrained), to show off the new InfiniteReality with their novel hardware clip-map feature.

Relevant: TerraVision, ART+COM, Joachim Sauter, and his beautiful digikinetic installations.

Update: I have now seen the whole miniseries and the making of, and there is a lot amiss in both, the film dramatization and the rebuttal attempts: Keyhole is one weird company, owned by US american secret services, obviously. The US american patent system is flawed, obviously. And certainly, Google is one evil shithole.