Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site The revenge of geography (13 Mar 2003) Actually, geography is far from dead. Although it is often helpful to think of the internet as a parallel digital universe, or an omnipresent 'cloud', its users live in the real world where limitations of geography still apply. And these limitations extend online. Finding information relevant to a particular place, or the location associated with a specific piece of information, is not always easy. This has caused a surge of innovation, as new technologies have developed to link places on the internet with places in the real world—stitching together the supposedly separate virtual and physical worlds. Article URL: http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1620794 Read 37 more articles from Economist sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The ROI of ROI This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy