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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, A Professor Of Political Science At Rutgers University, Has Argued That Geography Seems Less Relevant Than Ever In A World Where Nonstate Actors -- Malleable Entities Like Ethnicities, For Example -- Are As Powerful And Important As The Ones With Governments And Borders. Where On A Map Can You Point To Al-qaeda? Or Google, Or Wal-mart? Everywhere And Nowhere.

For Me, It Started As A Child With One Of Those Little Wooden Jigsaw Maps Of The U.s., Wheres Theres Crocodiles On Florida And Apples On Washington State. That Was My Very First Map.

We Don't Realize How Hard It Was To Drive Anywhere Outside The Major Cities Less Than A Century Ago.

Sure I Have A Cell-phone, So I Don't Have To Remember Everyone's Number Anymore, But That Really Wasn't A Core Part Of My Brain.

Being A Nerd Really Pays Off Sometimes.