{"id":483,"date":"2007-12-24T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2007-12-24T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T14:24:00","slug":"internet-lights-up-lights-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/internet-lights-up-lights-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Lights Up \/ Lights Out…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… or “plus \u00e7a change, plus c’est la m\u00eame chose,” or, my take on global Christmas lights this year:<\/p>\n

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The Internet has made the world a global space \u2013 not. Above, Chris Harrison’s<\/a> Internet Density world map, which has an uncanny resemblance to an 18th or 19th century European (early- to full-colonial) world map, though color reversed, i.e. the famous “white” (i.e. unexplored, unconquered) spaces of those old maps are here rendered in black, internet-unenlightened. With Africa clearly remaining the “dark continent.” Below, another of Harrison’s maps, this one representing World City-to-City connections:<\/div>\n

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… or “plus \u00e7a change, plus c’est la m\u00eame chose,” or, my take on global Christmas lights this year: The Internet has made the world a global space \u2013 not. Above, Chris Harrison’s Internet...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}