ABSTRACT
To the young practitioners of this new art, the old geographers believe in a flat earth – two-dimensional, static, and Euclidean, akin to a page in a book. The new view is three-dimensional, organic, and Mandelbrotian, akin to a moment of video. The old craftsmen worked with paper, ink, and a list of coordinates; the new breed has massively parallel computers crunching ever-expanding lodes of information. The veterans believe that they have limned a landscape that is knowable; the punks are anxious to discover and map new realms of dynamic ambiguity.
