John Prince’s Street

Walking down Oxford Street from Oxford Circus I saw the name of the street and wondered where it came from.

A quick google and

John Prince’s Street in London is named after John Prince, who served as the surveyor for the Cavendish-Harley estate in the 1710s. In this role, Prince was responsible for laying out streets on the estate, including John Prince’s Street, which was among the first to be established around 1729. Contemporary accounts describe Prince as a self-styled “Prince of Builders,” suggesting he may have been perceived as vain and arrogant. The street runs from Margaret Street in the north to Oxford Street in the south and is joined on its eastern side by Great Castle Street.

My oldest son once said to me that he could foresee when some version of Google or Siri would not wait to be asked for information. Rather, it would know you so well that it would supply information it knew you would want to have.

So, I like the origin of words and place names, and this future AI ‘thing’ would tell me about things when I was in the vicinity.

Perhaps it would be projected like a hologram in front of my spectacles or internally within my eyes because of the chip I have implanted in my head.

The future awaits.