I recently had an exchange with my friend Wes about whether Google Maps, by making it so difficult to lose your way, also made it difficult to stumble into serendipity. I walked away thinking that what Google Maps enabled - the expectation that I can just leave my house, walk or drive, and search for anything I could want as I go - enabled much more serendipity than it forestalled.
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Matt Thompson, “I have mixed feelings about Facebook”, Snarkmarket, 3 December 2010
