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==== Maps unify layers of intersecting knowledge ====

(The atlas was born. And Google Earth and Maps. Earth sciences, industrial planners, bureaucrats, everyone with information to share mapped their data onto the surface of the globe. New functions became possible. We can zoom in and out from a view of the milky way to the furniture you keep in your backyard. In place of landmarks we have coordinate systems that allows us to coordinate on a global scale, build navigation systems that automatically plan your journey on, foot, road, boat and air. In a sense the world is unknowable and ever changing. In other ways we can see it completely and these ways are functionally very empowering for us.

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