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A map of global chokepoints across shipping, internet cables, finance, energy and technology. See what breaks when one fails and what else goes with it. Open source and built for anyone to understand.
Every day, global trade, energy and the internet flow through a surprisingly small number of bottlenecks. A 33km strait in the Middle East carries a fifth of the world's oil. A Belgian cooperative processes most international bank transfers. A factory in Taiwan makes 90% of the world's most advanced chips.
The global chokepoints project maps these chokepoints across five categories: shipping lanes, internet cables, financial networks, energy infrastructure and technology.
The project introduces a distinction most people haven't considered: physical chokepoints, where geography creates the bottleneck, and institutional ones, where network effects and law do. They fail differently, and they're fixed differently.
Scenario mode shows cascade effects in real time, click any node and watch what else breaks when it does.
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About Global Chokepoints map on Product Hunt
“An interactive map of where the world breaks”
Global Chokepoints map was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #65 on the daily leaderboard. A map of global chokepoints across shipping, internet cables, finance, energy and technology. See what breaks when one fails and what else goes with it. Open source and built for anyone to understand.
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