Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds [Paperback]

GPS guides our world. Here at last is the amazing and well-told story of where it came from, how it works, and where itand weare going.Gripping&GPS is an engineering marvel, a global utility and a source of new threat all at once.[Milner] delves deep into the dense web of intersections between GPS'the worlds only free utility'and all those other utilities we vitally depend on, with interesting side excursions into earthquake-detection and the GPS-assisted monitoring of offenders.[A] compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitousand what we lose when it's all we know of navigation.Milner is a brisk and funny guide.A compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitousand what we lose when its all we know of navigation.Fascinating&Milner expertly deconstructs the implications of this monumental shift in human life.Milner's detailed examples will leave you questioning the ways in which GPS has infiltrated our lives.InWhenever people theorize about the collision of technology and culture, the Internet tends to consume all the oxygen in the room. But there is another global system that's taking over our lives in an even more insidious fashion, with stranger implications for the future of humanity.[An] entirely brilliant history of that most loved-and-loathed new technology, GPS. Every page was a treasure-house of fascinations: my temptation after finishing was to begin the book all over again, there being so much to absorb, all of it crucially important to understanding our worlds dependence on one of modern civilizations new-made fundamentals.The reason that brains are so good at storing maps is because the brain is a map, and our collective internal map is now migrating somewhere else. Greg Milners One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books&an extraordinary tale. Gillian Tett,