Almost no place is really obscure anymore

Vagablogging :: Rolf Potts Vagabonding Blog

“The global landscape used to be a theater of various shadings — sunlit fields and canyons of dark obscurity, trackless jungles, and misty Shangri-las. Now the whole world is like a cineplex when the lights have come on. Almost no place on the surface of the planet is really obscure anymore. Satellites watch it all and can let you know to the millimeter how far continental drift moved your swimming beach last year. What’s up along the banks of the great, gray-green Limpopo? How’s traffic on the road to Mandalay? What’s the snowpack like across the wide Missouri? The Internet or Google Earth will tell you.”

–Ian Frazier, “The Tale-Telling Days Are Over” Outside, Nov 2012

Original article can be found here: Almost no place is really obscure anymore