This past fall season I have added a few shows to my short list of TV programs that I give my precious time to. Added to the list (“Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Office”, “24″, and “How I Met Your Mother“) was the TV Show “V” and “Flash Forward“. The main plotline according to Wikipedia is that Flashforward centers around A mysterious event causes nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 137 seconds, during which people see what appear to be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future—a global “flashforward.

In the show after the flash forward happens, FBI Special Agent Mark Bedford helps institute a website called the “Mosaic” in which people can submit their vision to a conglomerative database and try to piece together what the day will be in six months. This is the symbol for the “Mosaic”:

Google recently after the horrific Earthquake that rocked the nation of Haiti set up a “Person Finder” very similar to what the “Mosaic” is in FlashForward. Google can do a lot of things, but it’s to see them put something I watched on TV into real life and in a real applicable use.

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