Neuroscientists have even found that using GPS for navigation may be affecting our cognitive maps - possibly rearranging the grey matter in our heads - leading to the increasingly common phenomenon 'Death by GPS', in which drivers blindly follow their devices into deserts, lakes, and impassable mountains. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. GPS is reshaping our thinking about privacy and surveillance, and brings with it the growing danger of GPS terrorism. Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World - Kindle edition by Milner, Greg. While GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate methods of timekeeping, navigation, and earthquake tracking, our overwhelming reliance on it is having unexpected consequences on our culture, and on ourselves. And it is changing us in profound ways we've yet to come to terms with. His forthcoming book, Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture and Our Minds, will be published by WW Norton in May 2016. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without it. Greg Milner Greg Milner is the author of Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. by Greg Milner (Author) Pinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. A network of twenty-four satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, it makes possible almost all modern technology, from the smartphone in your pocket to the Mars rover. Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity, Greg Milner examines the technology’s double-edged effect on the way we live, work, and travel. Science & Technology: General & Reference Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity. Pinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life.
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