Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

by Greg Milner

Book Overview

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, anticipate earthquakes, predict weather, locate oil deposits, measure neutrinos, grow our food, and regulate global finance. It is as ubiquitous and essential as another Cold War technology, the Internet. In Pinpoint, Greg Milner takes us on a fascinating tour...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393089126
• ISBN13: 9780393089127
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"