Overview: A New Perspective of Earth | Benjamin Grant | Talks at Google

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Channel: Talks at Google · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Inspired by the "Overview Effect" - a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole - the breathtaking, high definition satellite photographs in OVERVIEW offer a new way to look at the landscape that humans have shaped. Benjamin Grant, creator of the Instagram project Daily Overview from which the book is inspired, discusses how the project and book came about.

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