The world has been focused on the news from Ukraine over the past week and it’s easy to see why. For the first time ever, we are witnessing a war as it happens. The Vietnam war is known as the first televised war: I remember as a child watching reporters interviewing U.S. soldiers on the ground during nightly newscasts.

And during the Iraq war, we saw “embedded” journalists traveling alongside troops as they made their way across the Iraqi desert toward Baghdad. But today, technology has enabled us to watch an unprovoked invasion of an independent country in real time:  On the first day of the war, Google maps reportedly showed movement of Russian tank units because Google wanted to alert drivers to traffic jams.

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