This summer, I spent a few days in Florence, Italy, where, for the better part of 72 hours, I walked and walked the same narrow streets that Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Dante once prowled. So, last week, when I found myself looking down on the city from on high—a few hundred feet above Florence—its famous red-tiled roofs stretching as far as the eye could see in every direction, my first reaction was to see if I could navigate my way from the city's centerpiece, the Duomo, or cathedral, to the apartment I'd stayed in. advertisement advertisement In the background, gentle music played as I tried to figure out which streets to take to get there. But then, before I could trace the path all the way to that Airbnb, I was suddenly standing above Tokyo with that same bird's-eye view. Let's be honest: What are you supposed to think when that's what you see in front of you? "I've got a whole Godzilla thing going on," I said out loud. At least a couple of the people in the room with me laughed, I think. The room was on the second floor of Google's San Francisco office, and, with… Read full this story
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