Little Orange Street People

Has Google Maps' street view option changed "how we interact with the physical world," as Andy Miah, director of the Creative Futures Institute at the University of the West of Scotland suggests it has? Probably, to a certain extent, and exactly how it has depends on the individual.
   On the one hand, some may start to view the world as if on a screen, as if it were not entirely real. "Our memory of the place may become inextricable from that virtual experience," Miah says. On the other, being able to see a place ahead of time can be helpful. John Haas, a lecturer at Northwestern University, uses it before he travels. "It's definitely changed the way I would approach travel. ... I look at Street View first to see where I'm going, what's around me," he says: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21880217