For 4,000 years mapping showed us the world from a new point of view. Modern AI enabled maps are now running the world.
ByJack Dangermond,
Contributor.
Modern maps have taken a dramatic leap. They’re not maps as most people picture them. They’ve quietly become something else entirely.
For 4,000 years, maps did one thing: they described the world. Beautifully, sometimes. Accurately, increasingly. But they were static. They told you where things were.
Modern maps do something fundamentally different. They run the world.
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