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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: John Noble Wilford. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:31:42. Notes: Mapping. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. NPR/NGS Geographic Century John Noble Wilford interviewed by Don Smith 12/16/98 ...idle banter between Wilford and Smith... DS ....State your name and who you are and what you do. John Wilford [JW] 1:55 I¿m John Noble Wilford, I¿m a science correspondent for the New York Times and author of the book ¿The Map Makers¿. DS 2:05 Why do we make maps? JW 2:10 Well maps are one of the basic means by which humans communicate. So basic that we don¿t even know when people started thinking in terms of images of where they are and where things are. It goes back probably even before writing. DS 2:37 Has the fundamental, I guess one of the reasons we make maps is to see where we are. JW 2:43 Yes and where we want to go and where the two sort of meet. DS 2:51 Is that fundamental purpose of seeing where we are...has that changed over the centuries? JW 3:00 Fundamentally it hasn¿t changed a lot. What has changed is what we choose to map, uh what we want to map, what we can map. To explain that, once map makers simply mapped what they¿d seen, their local environment and their idea of what the world was like. Now of course, we can go all over the world. We¿ve been to all of the continents, mapped all of the continents, there are very few blank spaces on the maps today. In addition we can now do things like map the floor of the ocean, map the subsurface, beneath the ice of Antarctica, beneath the mountains. We can also map, we can fly over places and map jungles, we can even map Venus and Mars. It¿s expanded in what you can do and what you want to do, but the concept is still the same, to communicate place. DS 4:18 John, incidentally, when this piece is broadcast...you said something nice in your article for the geographic...how did you say that? JW 4:49 Well...The thing that has changed in mapping in the last 20, 30 years of course, is the technology that enables you to do so many more things than you could do before. And people in the map making business themselves are not even sure of all the implications. They say that they¿re in a revolution. They say that the whole role of maps and map makers is changing and we don¿t know what the outcome will be. It occurred to me talking to people in the field and talking to historians, that in many ways we¿re going through a revolution in map making, the likes of which we haven¿t seen since the renaissance back in the 15th, 16th centuries. And that is, we have new perspectives, we have new ways of creating images of place, where we are and where we want to go. And one of the main things that¿s driving that is the computer. Also what is driving that is called remote sensing which enables you to see more than you could see before. You can see the unseen as a matter of fact. Such as using infrared photography, radar, various other means of exploring the earth and other planets. DS 6:38 Even get some idea of the shape of the earth underground. JW 6:43 I think that the thing that I would like to impress upon people is the notion that until about 30 years ago only about a third of the earth had been mapped. And I say that because in the last 30 years we have mapped the floor of the oceans which of course encompasses almost 2/3 of the area of the earth. That in itself is astonishing. And what does mapping that 2/3 mean. It means that we have new concepts of the forces that drive earth. It¿s the combination of map making and of the physical sciences that is driven this revolution in plate-tectonics, understanding the forces that are causing the continents to drift and the forces that cause earthquakes and volcanoes. So, the map that you hold in your hands is the product of the work of people ... (Notes truncated)
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