Mapping Globalization

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A Berkman Lunch talk by Ethan Zuckerman, January 27, 2009

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2. photo by wilbanks, cc 3. rebbelib, stick chart or shell chart Marshall Islands, circa 1900 4. mattang - smaller, square charts used to teach the principles of navigating by ocean swells 5. shells represent islands curved and diagonal lines represent ocean swellsCaptain Winkler, 1901 6. Mapping infrastructure 7. Rand McNally Area and population of the world 1890. (mapping political geography, statistics) 8. Map of telegraph connections 1891 Stielers Hand-Atlas, Plate No. 5 9. Steamship routes, American Express Company, circa 1900 10. detail from Rand, Mc.Nally & Co's ofcial railroad map of the United States with portions of the Dominion of Canada, the Republic of Mexico, and the West Indies, circa 1893 11. 19th CenturyInfrastructure 1838 - Regular transatlantic shipping 1865 - London and Bombay connected by telegraph 1869 - Suez Canal opens 1869 - Connection of US transcontinental railway 1871 - Advent of refrigerated shipping 1898 - Chicago Mercantile Exchange founded 12. Foreign born population in US in 1890 - 14.8%in 2006 - 12.5% Global migrationin 1913 - 10%in 2005 - 2%mobile versus immobile migration 13. detail from opte project map of the internet steamship routes container ship routes canals airplane routes railroads oil and gas pipelines telegraph cablestelecommunication cableselectrical grid integrated nancial markets multinational corporations migration 14. Lagos, Nigeria - estimated population of 8,100,000 15. expectation of geographic maps: a level of detail that may brush up against privacy concernswhat do we expect from maps of infrastructure? 16. Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NSFNET, 1992 From Martin Dodges An Atlas of Cyberspaces 17. Opte project January 2005 18. Opte - apparently dead since 2005 Atlas of Cyberspaces - ran 1997 - 2004 Cheswick and Burche Internet Mapping Project - now Lumeta, maps available via mail, on request 19. Pan-European Oil & Gas Map, Petroleum Economist 20. cryptome.orgs maps ateyeball-series.org 21. Sean Gorman 22. Sean Gorman 23. Sean Gorman He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade -- and then they both should burn it, said Richard Clarke, former White House cyberterrorism chief. 24. the security concern: people want maps of infrastructureso they can break it my concern:we only pay attention to infrastructure when it breaks 25. infrastructure is invisible until it breaks how does this color our understanding of infrastructure? 26. A Gall/Spurzheim phrenelogical chart from Brain & Mind, 1997 27. Phineas Gage1823 - 1860Cavendish,Vermont September 13, 1848 28. PET scansTrack marked oxygen or glucose to determinestructures used duringcertain activitiesMapping infrastructure by mapping the ow ofoxygen or blood 29. understanding globalizationrequires us to map owas well as infrastructure 30. by Zurich University of Applied Sciences using data from Flightstats.com 31. In Transit from Cabspotting Stamen Design, using data from Yellow Cab 32. When does mapping ow become surveillance? (When you can use Google to put a pinpoint on my truck?) 33. mapping one box... versus mapping all of them 34. Can we intuit shipping routes from pirate attacks?Live Pirate Map, ICC/IMB 2008 35. infrastructure maps: what could happenow maps: what does happenintent maps: what people actually want 36. infrastructure means ow intent 37. infrastructure doesnt always match ow 38. understanding global ow is an opportunity to build infrastructure, and to make money 39. Daniel Cohen Imaginary Globalization 40. Cohen: global stuff blinds us to how local our economies actually are.The Friedman fallacyWhat else do we overestimate? 41. ickr photo by LHibou, cc what would we learn from an atlas of connection? 42. made with the GeoCommons maker (geocommons.com) 43. healthmap.org - MIT/Harvard collaboration 44. drc.ushahidi.com 45. photo by bass_nrollphoto by metled_snowball photo by drodidentify and map the infrastructures we depend on photo by rickz photo by xeni 46. map ow as well as infrastructureElectric Power Transmission, 1974. Congressional Research Service. 47. photo bysubpop77map who and what we know, what we pay attention to photo by tracyshaun photo by inju 48. what would an atlas of connectiontell us about ourselves?