分解能と解像度の違いについて考えている。

英語では両方ともresolutionになるが、日本語では対象が明らかに違う。解像度がある処理される情報の属性を指しているのに対して、分解能はその情報を読み解く主体の側に属している。解像度を向上する作業は実験、研究領域で進められ、既存のものよりも豊かな情報をもたらす革新的な技術が社会に普及するためには、その情報の解像度—深さ、広がり、質、等々—を設計するよりは、それを受け取る人間の分解能を向上する方法を設計しなくてはならない。この方法は多様であるはずだ。

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It is a quite intriguing fact that in Japanese, the words for Creativity and Imagination pronounce the same. When you deconstrcut the first, 創造力, you have 創 that stands for "establishing / initiating / founding" something, and 造 meaning "to fabricate". The latter, 想像力, consists of 想 that means "to think of", and 像 standing for "image", "figure", "shape". It is especially interesting that each of these modules can be inter-related separately.

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CHRIS DIBONA
Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.; Editor, Open Sources: Voices From the Open Source Software Revolution and Open Sources 2.0

Widely Available, Constantly Renewing, High Resolution Images of the Earth Will End Conflict and Ecological Devastation As We Know It

This idea reminds me of a Wired cartoon few years ago depicting the future of UN surveillance, where an UN officer, accompanied with thousands of webcam-powered flying insectron bots that are connected with PC users from around the world, interrogate a shady factory in the Middle East. When secrecy is demolished by Google Earth, security will again be reinforced in spite of private and anonymous sphere. A sort of David Ryan-ish mutual surveillance expanded from gated community onto a global, satellite scale?

As in a security hacker's stance, I thought of a way to disguise Google Earth. The basic idea is to, a little like the GITS optical camouflage, to overlay the targeted surface with a layer of static capture of the same exact place. This could be 1mx1m or 1kmx1km; as remote sensing cannot really have a tri-dimensional view of the earth's surface, this sort of camo should be convincingly realized with a careful handwork.
This way, a landscape slightly different than the reality can be overlayed onto the shared imaginary of GEarth. Something we can call Google Earth Overlay (GEO) method.