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

by Greg Milner

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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"

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