The Power to be Silent: Testimony, Identity, and the Place of Place

view. Geographers—or at least geography—has been a key player in this development. Remote surveillance systems and global positioning systems tied together with geographic information systems are increasingly common, and they seem to promise a world in which every action can be located, pinpointed on a map, and correlated with other nearby actions and events. And so, a 1999 report by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis 1 echoed Vice President Al Gore’s extolling of the future “digital earth,” 2 where an encompassing geographic information