[Editor’s note: Wireless is all the buzz but good old copper and fiber-optic cables link most of us together, as this graphic from last year’s Guardian newspaper shows.]
Republished from the Guardian newspaper (UK).
The vast majority of the world’s communications are not carried by satellites but an altogether older technology: cables under the earth’s oceans. As a ship accidently wipes out Asia’s net access [in 2008-ed], this map showss how we rely on collections of wires of less than 10 cm diameter to link us all together.
View larger JPG version (hi-res pdf).
