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Tech World Map (for fun)

This is just for fun. Please don't take any of it seriously!

Tech_world_map

  • Google: seen as ‘open’, fights against censorship, a superpower 
  • Facebook: envelops the earth, is everywhere, and dwarfs the rest 
  • Microsoft: as large as the EU, but internal rivalry hurting innovation
  • Apple: governed by a dictatorship, censors, yet wields a lot of power
  • MySpace: reminiscent of the breakup of the Soviet empire 
  • LinkedIn: is pretty much an island unto itself 
  • Twitter: wants to be seen as an emerging power, but has infrastructure issues 
  • FriendFeed: hardly anyone lives there 
  • Nokia and Orkut: leaders in the third-world

Art Lebedev's Transparentius eliminates opacity, improves road safety -- Engadget

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Transparentius, as with most good ideas, is remarkably simple -- you jack a camera onto the front of a truck, or lorry as they're known in some places, and then project that image onto the back of your hulking transporter. The effect of this is to render the truck figuratively transparent for the driver behind, who is enriched with a lot more information about what lies on the road ahead.