одной цепью

08:07 | 24-10-2011 | Geography, Lifeform | 2 Comments

прекрасные диаграммы, нити света:

These silvery threads stretching around the dark globe create a dramatic spider’s web showing the patterns of our global sprawl.

The stunning images are the result of 13 years of devotion by Canadian anthropologist Felix Pharand who uses them to show how human technologies such as data cables, aeroplanes and roads are colonising the surface of our planet.

конечно же, напоминает былое, один-в-один:

Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  

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