Ebook {Epub PDF} Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology Culture and Our Minds by Greg Milner

Pinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. 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 /5(93). Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.  · Milner examines the different ways humans have understood physical space, delves into the neuroscience of cognitive maps, and questions GPS’s double-edged effect on our culture. A fascinating and original story of the scientific urge toward precision, Pinpoint offers startling insight into how humans understand their place in the www.doorway.ru: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc.

And Our Minds By Greg Milner Pinpoint how gps is changing technology culture and our. renee blackburn regional program manager national. how gps is changing technology culture and our minds milner lays out the history of gps examining its emergence as a military project. Pris: kr. inbunden, Skickas inom vardagar. Köp boken Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds av Greg Milner (ISBN ) hos Adlibris. Fri frakt. Alltid bra priser och snabb leverans. | Adlibris. A Financial Times Best Book of A Sunday Times Best Book of Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology—but is changing us in profound ways. Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls.

Pinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. 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. Greg Milner is the author of Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His forthcoming book, Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture and Our Minds, will be published by WW Norton in May In Pinpoint the US journalist Greg Milner explains brilliantly the American military heritage and management of GPS, as well as its essential role underpinning the world’s communications and transport infrastructures It is a joy to read, not only for the central story about GPS but also for side excursions, for example into the ancient navigation systems that guided Polynesians around the Pacific islands and into the effects on the human brain of overdependence on satnav.