Reply With QuoteThanks AndyG, The internet is certainly an incredible feat of human endeavour. Communication with each other is absolutely vital to who we are. It's the economy of course that is the driver however. Efficient money making tools outweigh human interaction, with big data and surveilNce also being prime motivators for the growth of internet. It's good to celebrate the ongoing achievement, but also to recognise that the internet is not benign and that the accuracy of data is not necessarily trust worthy.
I'm not sure of the accuracy of some of those maps. The map of world by internet speed has all of Australia at the same speed, which is very odd given the wildly different speeds people are getting even within the same city or suburb, let alone across the continent.
Intriguing that almost all Australias internet traffic comes in and out of Sydney. Can this really be correct? Also I'm not sure that 12,000 outages in a given hour is all that reliable. I suppose as a percentage it might be. It doesn't seem to show how many are out for extended periods.
Mapping the Networks of TV, radio, uhf, power grids, plane flight paths, etc are equally impressive and all contribute to who we are as a species in ways we often don't realise.
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