In his introduction to the
very first issue of the National Geographic Magazine, Gardiner Greene
Hubbard explained two crucial thoughts of his:
high technology had to be used by geographers, and everybody should be a geographer, meaning everybody should contribute
to the knowledge of what surrounds us. Google Earth, with its more than 1
billion downloads since it was created, has achieved both of Hubbard's requirements. Using the
power of new information technology, anybody who owns a
computer can see any part of the world and contribute to a huge
database, leading
us soon, perhaps, to absolute knowledge about our planet...
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