Google Maps Has Changed How We Remember Space

Electronic mapping systems are altering how our spatial memories function, with real world implications

Naomi Day
OneZero
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6 min readOct 11, 2019

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GGoogle Maps was released just after I turned 10 years old in the winter of 2005. Before that, it was paper maps or printed MapQuest directions for my family. (Who remembers that era?) I didn’t start using Google…

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Naomi Day
OneZero
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Speculative fiction and Afrofuturist writer. Software engineer. US-based; globally oriented. I think and write about building new worlds.