Google mapping the end of man

Check out this nice piece from Mockingbird on some of the gains and losses that come along with the really spectacular technology of Google maps.

A snippet:

...this is the gist of Walker Percy's critique of modernity, that our age has lost humankind's God-given sovereignty or, better yet, that our age has shipped off our capabilities to Experts in the Field...this loss of sovereignty feigns sovereignty: even in the remotest canyons, I can find me, my blue blinking dot.  I have the illusion of control that I bought (happily) from Google, Inc.