There used to be a great YouTube video of a very naive young American woman, who spoke with some vehemence about why various insurgents around the world were a problem. It was - I'm not making this up - because they didn't have maps so nobody knew where they were. Americans had maps, she said, and that's why it's sometimes called 'Amaprica'.rnThis fact had escaped many people and it was good of the young woman to point it out. Wittingly or otherwise, though, she'd spotted something very important. People are using maps, and they are using them in many different ways. Allied to computer technology they're becoming even more of a boost to civilisation than they were before.
展开▼
