Electronic Mapping Story aired: Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Map-making is among the oldest of human technologies, far older than writing. In fact, the earliest known map is a clay tablet from Babylon, thought to be more than 4,000 years old.
Nowadays, maps are everywhere, more than ever, even if you can't see them. That's because an invisible digital map now covers the world like a cloak.
Here and Now's information technology commentator David Weinberger says that map will change our lives in ways both great and small.
