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fields are exploring spatial cognition, human factors, visual analytics, augmented reality and spatial
thinking. What can be done today to position GC for what is yet to come?
One thing that is clear is that geographers know too little computer science and vice versa.
Any effort that blends the disciplines will help, and where this can be encouraged, it should be.
Geographers should know how to program, how to manipulate the web and how to serve data across
the Internet and about the quirks of numerical operations. Similarly, the stereotypical computer sci-
ence student needs to lift his or her head up from a computer screen and take in the richness of the
world around him or her. All who work across the field owe it to themselves to follow research and
developments in both disciplines, a demanding task. Perhaps most of all, GC needs to keep an eye
on the future, to better know how to mould it. John Pierce (1910-2002) stated that 'after growing
wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy'. I, for one, regret that I
will not live to see GC in its prime.
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