Peter Cobbe's insights ,report and podcast uses a thought experiment approach that explores the concept of an Apple iGlobe, a high-end spherical display that differs from conventional globes and flat digital maps. The idea is to stimulate thinking and ideas.
Presented as a thought experiment with considerable commercial and educational potential, the iGlobe proposes to integrate cutting-edge spherical screen technology with Apple Intelligence to create an immersive, responsive interface for visualising and understanding complex global data, patterns, and phenomena. Greater minds will see and develop other uses and applications.
The fundamental premise of the iGlobe addresses a persistent limitation in how we interact with geographical and global information. Whilst digital platforms such as Google Earth have revolutionised our access to geographical data, they remain constrained by the inherent distortions of projecting a spherical world onto flat screens. The iGlobe concept seeks to restore the intuitive, undistorted perspective of a traditional globe whilst infusing it with the dynamic capabilities of modern computing, creating what might be termed an “intelligent physical interface” to our world’s information.