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Map Wars

Google and Huawei have the power to shape our tech-based reality.

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Clark Boyd
Feb 09, 2020
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Way back in the year 1501, before the original iPod or even the Walkman existed, the King of Portugal sent a merry band of explorers to check out the strange piece of land discovered by Mr Columbus a few years prior.

One of the explorers, Amerigo Vespucci, found that this land was not the eastern boundary of Asia. Rather, it was a separate continent. 

He …

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