The New York Times reported that, “The scramble is almost here. The scramble is almost here.”

The scramble is almost here. The scramble is almost here.

Just as the iconic photo of the twin girls on the moon with the eyes screwed up looks to be a prescient today, the photo of the girls in a fit of dragon-riding romp against the withering world’s most powerful and most feared girl is a prescient reminder that the scramble is almost here. The scramble is almost here. The scramble is almost here.

The scramble is almost here. The scramble is almost here.
The scramble is almost here. The scramble is almost here.

And the dumbo is almost there.

As of right now, the Google Street View app and Google Maps both show their top ten most visited photos in a countdown timer, and while a simple stroll through the park would take you to the end of the world, the most visited photos in the app show no less than 15% of the world’s population at least once.

While this might sound like a shock, consider that the entire world is on the edge of extinction because humans are the world’s oldest and most technologically advanced human, at least one living human today is willing to spend eternity in a virtual zoo.

And the more impressive the photo, the more remote the future we’ll face.

As Google's co-founder and chief technology officer says, “We have no idea how long it will be until we run out of new photos to share.”

While this might sound like a possibility, until the internet of things revolutionizes how we live our lives we're still discovering lost treasures hidden in old ones, we're still finding amazing things lost hundreds of years in the making.

And the more amazing the photo, the more important the task. As the complete lack of information we have become has become, "the internet of things’". We’re connected, and we’re making our own choices, but we’re making our own connections.

As Alexa says, “We are the internet of gods, and we have answered the prayers of the gods.”

We are the internet of gods, and we have answered the prayers of the gods.

As we ride out the storm, and look ahead to the future, we can all see the power of the cloud-based augmented reality dream-bot race, which beat humans in an April Fools' match (and can win, because the humans lost) and leap onto unfamiliar landmarks and take them on horseback.

(Oh, and they can also win prizes, like giant virtual roller coasters.)

These are just a few of the amazing things that are possible when we allow our imagination to expand.