Catherine’s Reviews > This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong > Status Update

The US owes many apologies to many people, and the Marshallese deserve may of them (in addition to SIGNIFICANT financial compensation); nothing will ever be enough but we need to do something regardless.

“Technology has done all sorts of amazing and useful things; that’s why we keep spending more on it. But it appears to come with the barely hidden risk of human devolution at the same time. Walking may be harder than driving, navigating more trickier than being told where to turn and learning more difficult than not learning. But it’s still better than the end of all human capability” (p.252-253)

Ew!