This image comes from a fascinating post by William Drenttel for Design Observer. He writes of it:
Imagine mapping the endless and repetitive paths of your computer’s mouse for a single week — every click, every fetch, every drag. It’s a map of one activity drawn over a defined period of time — a mouse that traveled 5.47893 miles in a single week. Every graphite line fragment signifies the gathering of some bit of information, a connection to a friend, the highlighting of a textual phrase to erase — plus the implied risk, after this distance traveled, of Repetitive Strain Injury. This drawing happened at a desk somewhere, but the context being mapped is elsewhere. It’s a map that captures a piece of the puzzle, but only a sliver.
But the key point is:
The mapping of cyberspace is the mapping of our time, just as much as mapping DNA sequences is the mapping of the human genome. We should hope that there would be hundreds of maps, statisticians and social scientists and designers working to explain —and to visualize — this evolving new world. It’s an exploration worthy of Ferdinand de Magellan’s voyage around the world in 1519-21.
Read the whole piece- there is so much more content he deals with that will lead you down other “rabbit holes” of the web.
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