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• The impact on maps on thinking 10 September 2020

“The historical advances in cartography didn’t simply mirror the development of the human mind”

Children draw pictures of their surroundings with a big circle for the sun and a combo of rectangle and triangle for their house. Over time, this grows to encompass more realism until they can draw blueprints with set-squares and rulers. The human cartographic development follows a similar pattern, dirt circles drawn with a stick to accurate topological maps and maps to plan and describe battles and epidemics. Maps don’t just describe our thinking but shape it as we are able to grasp the location of countries, the placement of mountains and the spread of COVID over time.

Our thinking is both shaped and augmented with maps.

Notes From: Nicholas Carr. “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”. Apple Books.