I think most people have at some point in time seen this picture of the Earth at night:

After seeing this again tonight, it reminded me of an earlier image I posted that showed global bandwidth:

I found it interesting (and I suppose expected) that the brighter areas coincided with the heavier bandwidth areas. If you look at the two images overlaid (after some resizing and adjustment) it’s much clearer:

So is this correlation due to man’s thrust to band together to form great city-states multiplied by the accelerated expansion of technology across the globe or maybe just all the late raids in World of Warcraft?