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Cables Run Beneath the Ocean Rather than a Land Based Web
Undersea Network of Cables
Disrupts Oceanic Ecology
People Remain Blissfully Unconcerned with How Data Travels
Illusion of a Wireless World Encourages People to Ignore the Existence of Cables and Data Centers
Displaces, Alters and Exterminates Sea Life
People Often Pay No Attention Until Animals Begin to Inhabit or Surface Within Human Dominated Spaces
Whales Beach Themselves
Sharks are Moving Further Inland and Exhibiting Unusual or Unheard of Migration Patterns
Misconception that Data Travels Via Satellite
Cables Remain Out of the Public Gaze
Garner Better Security than Satellites
Ideal for Militarized Nations
Satellites are "Sexier" than Cables
Offer the Illusion of a Wireless World
Colonial Empires Form Oligopolies on Cables
The British Formulated an Extensive Telegraph Network To Maintain Communication with and Control Over their Immense Colonial Empire
Oceanic Fiber Optic Cable Landfall Points are Disproportionately Located in Large Empires
“When you turn on a computer and you send an e-mail, do you really care how it works? No, you just want an e-mail there, and you start drumming the table if it takes thirty seconds” (5) ¹.
