ARTICLE: Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World, By Evan Ratliff, June 26, 2007

Way cool article on a way cool phenomenon: mob mapping of our world. Fun and convenient stuff for the already highly demarcated Old Core, but essential growth for the loosey-goosey New Core and a serious breakthrough in ground-level connectivity in the Gap.

In its way, it's an amazing bottom-up form of advertising. One thing I remembered from my summer in the USSR in 1985: no advertising meant no one knew where anything was or how to buy it, so you wasted so much time ferreting out such info--just wandering around.

Imagine a Gap that self-maps! Imagine the individual empowerment from that, on a level and scope that DeSoto would have to love!

This is something I want to explore in Vol. III: most of shrinking-the-Gap will be done by individuals, corporations, and groupings below the level of the nation-state.

Thanks to Jason Wright for sending this in.