“We’ve seen it in the past,” Martin Scorpese told Empire News. The web giants know that humanity can be appeased by offers of free entertainment. The Google car will be the beginning, but eventually our streets and buildings will belong to Google.”Īnalysts speculate that the release of games such as Pac-Man is an attempt to soften the public towards their slow takeover. “They’ll be revolutionizing not just the way we look at the world, but how life actually works. They’ll be digitalizing the earth’s terrain, starting with first world countries but eventually moving on to those still developing,” explained tech website, Slate. “Google is moving beyond online maps and into the real world. The game is but a small part of a larger process, which will see Google take over 60% of the world’s streets over the next year. “Road users will be able to impact the game by bashing their cars into the soft characters, causing them to change direction and compromising the strength of the ghosts.” “There’ll be big yellow Pac-Men gliding along the roads, eating ephemeral pills and running away from ghosts, Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde,” Herman Melpille, the man behind the initiative, said in a press release. What we can look forward to in 2016, is our streets literally turning into a giant game of Pac-Man. But 6 days after April Fool’s, it seems the option is here to stay, and the world’s largest search engine have announced that adding such features to Maps will be an annual tradition. On April 1st this year, Google turned its online Maps application into a game of Pac-Man, on the very streets of your hometown.
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