Email miles is a new GPS based system that tells you how far your email has travelled.
Inventor
Jonah Brucker-Cohen has developed a new technology which uses GPS and
internet tracking to calculate the number of miles an email has
travelled before reaching an inbox. The system tracks where a message
was sent from and where it was received.
The system developer, Jonah
Brucker-Cohen states that the system calculates the total distance
between the two and displays it on the screen alongside a map. He
stated, that he hoped it would remind people how quickly they can
communicate today in a digital world, according to 'The Times.'
The system shows how indirect the route
of emails can be. For eg, an email sent from New York to Dakar, Senegal,
travel's 790 miles (1,271km) to a server in Chicago Illinois, and that
went 2,163 miles (3,481km) to Mountain View, California; 1,699 miles
(2,734km) to Dallas; 4,745 miles (7,636km) to London; and 2,718 miles
(4,374km) to its destination - 12,115 miles (19,497 km) in total.
Brucker-Cohen said the system does all of its time and distance calculations using the internet and a 'coordinate mapping system.'
“When all of the mileage amounts are
tallied, it adds them all and provides the user with a map, the
countries, continents and miles the email travelled,” Brucker-Cohen
said.
“The goal of Email Miles is to bring
back the authentic nature of snail mail into something we now use daily
as its replacement – email”, states Jonah.
“Email Miles is both a free and open source plug-in for standard email software such as Apple’s Mail and Gmail that scans outgoing emails and their destination servers for their Geolocation, calculates the distance in miles and countries and continents the mail has traveled and tags each incoming email with this info,” reads the FundAnything page of the Email Miles project.
“Email Miles is both a free and open source plug-in for standard email software such as Apple’s Mail and Gmail that scans outgoing emails and their destination servers for their Geolocation, calculates the distance in miles and countries and continents the mail has traveled and tags each incoming email with this info,” reads the FundAnything page of the Email Miles project.
