The cellphone now dominates the flow of data, and the map is emerging as the means for how we organize, find and use information. The New York Times explores this shift to the way maps are generalizing information, and how they will change the way we think and act.
“We’re way early on, and we don’t know what the Macintosh of maps will be yet,” said Paul Mercer, a former Apple Computer software designer who more recently worked on the development of the Palm Pre smartphone. “But because of their relationship to the real world, maps will be a metaphor for a huge swath of mobile computing.”
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