Cyberspace, cybersecurity, and the spread of optical submarine cables in the atlantic basin and beyond, 14 july 2017

a global Atlantic-centric take as seen in Google Earth, image, NASA, overlooking the North Atlantic image, NASA, centered on the wide South Atlantic A Room with a View classical geopolítics: the opening fo the Atlantic as a Mare Nostrum, then a Mare Clausum: Tordesillas and the Portuguese commercial routes during the XVIth Century (in blue) and “española” ones (these latter ‘de longo curso’ and in white, here) ports in Atlantic Basin and the Portuguese and ‘Spanish’ routes, cents 15th to 18th a view of the slave-trade, Africa-Americas, 1650-1860 almost a decade ago: comparative global density of seaborne commercial exchanges (um mapa adaptado de um outro, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 2008) global density of commercial exchanges, 2016 The colours: in yellow, the more populated regions, in reddish the less populated ones mapa dos centros das emissões mais intensas de dióxido de carbono, CO2, a cores A verde, o mais “verde” (2016) the back panel of a satellite modem, with coaxial connections for both incoming and outgoing signals, and an Ethernet port for connection “world map of internet users”, rescaled focal points: distribution-localization of frienship sharing on Facebook 2016: the ‘gravitational force’ of the geography of the global: connections and friendships local, regional, and global: “global visualization of every connection between two people on Facebook” What a Wonderful World, 2016: Paul Butlers map of local, regional, and global Facebook friendshipsthe clear preference of multiple connection hubs to the local, ‘the economiy, stupid’ , demography, and rising patterns of urbanization echoes or ressonances? A very similar map, this one, global GDP density, 2015 similar too as for twitter: the so-called geolocated tweets, 2015; echoes of galloping urbanization and of growth in the economy the mobility flows of twitter users between 58 cities, 2015 The twitter city flows : a repeated pattern? globalization, desglobalization, or a new emergent multipolarity? Imports and exports, by country, in 2014 Poliitcally ‘centralized’ Action vs Decentered Choices: an example of selectivity as concerns the old social media: countries compressed or streched according the the news on them published by Guardian Online from 2010 to 2012 potential connectivities, chokepoints and power, in the Atlantic Basin and its surroundings: possessions franỗaises, in July 2017 What they mean, the end of the “West”? July, 2017, “British possessions and British exclusive economic zones” (in pink) e “French possessions and NATO countries territoires, as well as those of our Allies, in the Atlantic Basin and some of its ‘chokepoints’” Under the Cape if Good Hope, French and Norwegian islands and archipelagoes again my hypothesis of reduplication of maritime ‘colonial’ connectivity and centrality, seen with perhaps greater graphic clarity in a neater map background How can we interpret this? Bis A repetition of maritime colonial patterns? But why? ... only being sketched some of the new diomensions of geopolitics: optic internet submarine cable map, 2015 2015, ? ?optical submarine cable on the oceanic depths of the northern Atlantic Basin? ?? as... Look at the lines and compare Portugal (not Spain or France) with The Netherlands and the UK A ‘repetition’ of the patterns of colonial maritime connectivities? Problematising: submarine cable... the South Atlantic basin, the myth of South-South connections laid bare: in what concerns digital, it is nothing but wishful thinking optical cables in Asia, centered of the Straits of Malacca,