Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Free world

Imagine, if instead of looking like this, each colored box being a group of people living under control of some monopoly:
 Europe Political Map - 1995

...the world actually looked like this:

Europe map - map of Europe - satellite image, night lights over Europe, by woodleywonderworks

...and human society on this planet looked like this:

Langlands and Bell, 'Air Routes of the World (Day)', 2001. Museum no. E.10-2002, © Langlands and Bell

2 comments:

e said...

developing a fascination with maps?

CA said...

How little you know me. I've been fascinated with maps always.

What I am really fascinated with is connections. That's why I like brain circuits, biochemical pathways, history, Go, Kabbalah and maps.