Let’s look at things differently. Which map gives us a better sense of the world’s roundness. Since we are in the Northern Hemisphere, we’ll start with the North Pole. It is hard to even find Denmark compared to Greenland. And isn’t it difficult to get an orientation? We think of the world as a vertical North American image - more like the one below. Aren’t we always in the centre of the world picture!
What I notice is how close-by all the countries are. And 4 million people live in the Arctic Region - that’s the dotted blue line. Of those only 400,000 - 500,000 people are Indigenous.
And then look at the map as a shipping route with China involved. That’s the third map.
What a surprise to have to be looking at the world globe from other people’s perspectives. It is true isn’t it. We see a flat map with us far away from the Russians and Chinese. Oh well.
Today’s perspective on the world map:
“So I put a giant map of the world up on the wall and gave my wife a dart. I told her wherever it lands is where we go on holiday.
I guess we're spending three weeks behind the fridge.
Here’s one of my images my iMAC retrieved with the input of the word “map.” It looks like a map, doesn’t it? I don’t think I’ve ever keyworded an image I’ve created with “map.” I expect there’s AI lurking and working in my computer that I haven’t yet accessed to deactivate. I may have thought I turned off all the Apple Intelligence that I could, but I notice that there are settings in Siri I hadn’t thought of. Here is the AppleSpeak for the benefits:
“These features are designed to enhance productivity, writing, and photo management, with a focus on on-device processing and privacy. “
This map looks like the continents are rejoining together.
