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The Surveying Revolution of 1550-1650: Implications for the Current Geospatial Revolution-Part Ⅱ
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In a previous paper, the surveying revolution of 1550-1650 was discussed. This discussion is continued in this paper, with an attempt to find parallels between that revolution and the current geospatial revolution that started around 1950. The current revolution should be considered the fourth revolution, and it has stronger parallels to the third, especially concerning timing, than the first two. The critical point of revolutions has less to do with technology, methods, and theory, than with how people see their world, that is, how they think. The hunter-gatherer society had no conception of the life of a farmer, and little social structure to deal with having to change to that lifestyle. Similarly, the arrival of industrial society was extremely difficult for the agriculturally oriented people involved: Blake's description of early factories as "these dark Satanic Mills" was not an idle poetic construction. Today, as the Industrial Age changes into something else, our thinking is often stuck in what worked for the Industrial Age, not for the current situation. This is not surprising, because we have little other experience. As Industrial Age institutions become increasingly dysfunctional in new circumstances, Industrial Age thinking will not fix things. While the nature of a new geospatial worldview cannot be discerned at present, there are indications about some of the important attributes of what might drive that worldview. These are presented and discussed in this paper.
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