Thanks to Alec's bio of Bucky being juicy, leading to higher sales, more capitalizing has occurred.
Alec brings the Dymaxion Map into it, as he follows the chronology (Dymaxion Car, Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Bathroom...).
By the time of that Life Magazine issue in 1943, Bucky was a King of the Hill when it came to lecturing the public on the drawbacks of using distorted maps. National Geographic was quick to proffer up a host of better alternatives. We've been watching the YouTubes about all this over on TrimTab.
Data scientists e.g. users of hex tile libraries, geopandas, ESRI products and so on, are going to think in terms of "data layers".
The overlay of "nation states", like an endocrine system, or lymphatic, occupies its place on the stack of transparencies. Fancy medical science textbooks came with these multi-layer anatomies.
Now we have computers and animations that will perform even better. Geo-spatial data visualizations are anatomy and physiology by another name, with their planetary focus.
Bucky wanted to pioneer a space of neutrality, using what one might call a map of prehistoric earth, but not in the sense of "continents shifted".
We might still go with dinosaurs though, on this mythical Whole Earth with its Jurassic Park. We could have several branches of hominid. Unreal or Unity or Blender might be enlisted at this point.
Fast forward and we get to the Napoleonic Period, slowing to the US acquiring its fifty stars, teetering on the edge with Puerto Rico.
That data layer is still accessible, through the Mercator, through the Gall-Peters, through whatever projection (mapping framework, coordinate system) you like.
Just not the Dymaxion.
We're deliberately ignorant and innocent of post Napoleonic stuff. Give us our Neanderthal Ken and Barbie dolls, and our Dymaxion Map. Forget the future, or at least that one.
These remarks provide some atmospherics designed to evoke that spirit of neutrality, when it comes to geopolitics.
Given all the world maps on the shelf, it makes perfect sense that at least one would be nation free by deliberate design. Why not? We won't be trapped in some "time period".
Not only that, it's sophisticated in other directions as well.
I sound like a salesman don't I? One who "believes in his product".
