05 June 2014 07:15
Driverless cars and Red Barchettas: Did Rush predict a Google-controlled future? - The Big Event
Peart wrote the lyrics in 1981, and appears to correctly predict the inventions of Google Earth and Street View (“the eyes”). This will become even more prescient in the next decade or two, as the products continue their inevitable evolution toward watching our every move in real time. (Initially for consumer data-tracking purposes, but later co-opted by law enforcement.)
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