It’s kind of like stream of consciousness meets Siri. According to Alexandra Alter in a post on the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog, a German college student has reinterpreted Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac’s famous novel “On the Road” using Google maps. Gregor Weichbrodt has set out Kerouac’s substance-fueled journey in a 55-page set of driving directions in his e-book, “On the Road for 17,527 miles.”
Mr. Weichbrodt virtually retraced Kerouac’s cross-country journeys by plugging all the landmarks into Google’s direction service,” says Alter. Pretty impressive for a 26 year-old who didn’t even finish the novel! Instead of beatniking, the project was a part of Weichbrodt’s thesis on visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, says Alter. He wrote a computer code that allowed him to enter multiple locations into Google maps and receive a single route.
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