“It started as a slightly ridiculous question,” says Bilawal Sidhu: “How much of the planet can you make sense of from public data and a browser tab?

Being able to navigate & understand the world with a Jarvis-style UI is just magical.

Once aircraft, vessels, satellites, active fires, earthquakes, traffic, public cameras and physical infrastructure live on the same photorealistic 3D globe, it stops feeling like a pile of dashboards. It feels like a command center.

Amazingly, he’s made the whole thing open source. I just hope my man doesn’t get black-bagged by some dudes in a panel van. :-p

In this video I walk through the whole thing: ask the planet what’s happening over a cluster of military flights; jump into cockpit mode; voice-fly to points of interest, draw real boundaries and routes; move from city traffic into street cameras; inspect the physical internet; tune into radio around the world; and replay a recent Falcon 9 launch.