Bibliograph

Pinpoint, how GPS is changing technology, culture, and our minds, Greg Milner

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Pinpoint, how GPS is changing technology, culture, and our minds, Greg Milner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pinpoint

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

944014235

Responsibility statement

Greg Milner

Sub title

how GPS is changing technology, culture, and our minds

Summary

"Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology--but is changing us in profound ways, "--Amazon.comYour Global Positioning System guides you across town; it also helps land planes, and anticipates earthquakes. Milner takes us on a fascinating tour of a hidden system that touches almost every aspect of our modern life, and shows how it has created new forms of human behavior. But the potential misuse of GPS data by government and corporations raise disturbing questions about ethics and privacy. GPS satisfies the scientific urge toward precision-- but may be altering the very nature of human cognition

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The whisper from space -- Part I: Calculating Route -- 1. Tupaia goes home -- 2. The when and the where -- 3. Global reach, global power -- 4. Ranging the perfect beet -- Part II: You Have Arrived -- 5. Death by GPS -- 6. The hornet's nest -- 7. Better living through tracking -- 8. Return from mid-ice -- 9. Tied together (40.74375° N 73.9835° W) -- Epilogue: Direction home -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexIntroduction: The whisper from space -- Calculating route. Tupaia goes home ; The when and the where ; Global reach, global power ; Ranging the perfect beet -- You have arrived. Death by GPS ; The hornet's nest ; Better living through tracking ; Return from mid-ice ; Tied together (40.74375° N 73.9835° W) -- Epilogue: Direction home

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