The picture above is a visual representation of the “nationality” of traffic on the internet, created by the University of California’s Co-operative Association for Internet Data Analysis: America is in pink, Britain in dark blue, Italy in pale blue, Sweden in green and unknown countries in white.

The image and explanation comes from a well argued piece in The Economist about the present state of the Net and the forces conspiring to change, deliberately or not, its architecture, purpose, and capabilities.  Click here to read the piece.

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