Life Imitating the Movies
Remember that James Bond movie, “ Tomorrow Never Dies ”? In it, a media mogul stages international incidents involving the world's superpowers. In one such staged incident, a deliberately messed up GPS system causes a British war vessel to think they’re still in international waters when in reality they’ve entered Chinese waters. Sounds very far fetched, right? Think again. Last week, Nicaraguan troops crossed the border into a neighbouring Costa Rican town. The funny thing in all this is that it wasn’t a planned invasion at all. Rather, the “ accidental invasion ” happened because the Nicaraguan troops used Google Maps , which mistakenly said the territory belonged to Nicaragua! Apparently, Google is human after all: it errs.