Transformation of Natural Geography: Technological and Cognitive Maps

Abstract

There is an analysis of dependence of technological expansions of a human being over
the transformation of natural spatial notions turning into cognitive schemes and the change of
“picture of the world”. There is an argument of the possibility of interpretation of geographical
knowledge and acquired habits as semeiotic, culturally determined modifi cations of “higher
mental functions”, orientation which is not based on natural means of travel but related to
technological means of travel. There is a description of appearing a specifi c hybrid construct
of orientation/locomotion under technological progress conditions that set a new topology of a
cultural body and a technologically modifi ed topology of outward things.