A. Polar regions. Explorers didn't start getting close to the ice caps until a decade or two before world war 2 started.
In 1651,the British parliament, in the first of what became known as the NAVIGATION ACTS, declared that only english ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and the north american colonies could not only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar ,to England. England passed the navigation act to tighten control on the government and the trade.
Computers, touchscreen smartphones, self driving cars most of all.
