6, 97: Why scorpions?
A fascinating and inspiring meditation on aerodynamics.
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Shipmap.org | Visualisation of Global Cargo Ships | By Kiln and UCL
A beautiful visualisation of shipping routes and cargo. Mesmerising!
You can see movements of the global merchant fleet over the course of 2012, overlaid on a bathymetric map. You can also see a few statistics such as a counter for emitted CO2 (in thousand tonnes) and maximum freight carried by represented vessels (varying units).
Creating a physical internet to save money and energy on logistics
I remember a talk and discussion at SxSW a few years back about trying to improve the efficiency of trade networks by making them more web-like: there are ships full of empty cargo containers, simply because companies insist on using the container with their logo on it. I really, really like the idea of applying the principles of packet-switching to physical networks.
But here’s the hard part:
The technology is not a problem. We could do it all in 10 years. It’s the business models and the mental models in people’s minds.
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James Bridle in untrue art exposé: read all about it!
The comments are simply epic.