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Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner
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- ISBN-13
- 9780393354362
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- ISBN
- 9780393354362
- Book Title
- Pinpoint : How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science
- Topic
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Navigation, Social Aspects, Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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"One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books...an extraordinary tale." --Gillian Tett, Financial Times
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393354369
ISBN-13
9780393354362
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234695936
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pinpoint : How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Navigation, Social Aspects, Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Transportation, Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
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If you read only one practice-building book this year, this is the one! Lynn Grodzki, psychotherapist and extraordinary practice-building coach, outlines her successful 4-step process for crisis-proofing your practice. With the laser focus of a seasoned business professional, the empathy of a compassionate therapist, and the light touch of a great coach, Grodzki shows you exactly what to do to keep your practice thriving in any economy. Follow the easy step-by-step roadmap in this book to get your phone ringing!, Whenever people theorize about the collision of technology and culture, the Internet tends to consume all the oxygen in the room. But there is another global system that's taking over our lives in an even more insidious fashion, with stranger implications for the future of humanity. Pinpoint dissects the modern age of mapping and shows the hidden dangers of a world where nothing is hidden at all., In Pinpoint, Greg Milner gives us a much-needed account of GPS, its history, philosophy, and the overwhelming consequences of its success. Funny, scary, and tremendously readable, Pinpoint will be an eye-opening thrill for anyone who has watched their blue dot dance around an online map., [An] entirely brilliant history of that most loved-and-loathed new technology, GPS. Every page was a treasure-house of fascinations: my temptation after finishing was to begin the book all over again, there being so much to absorb, all of it crucially important to understanding our world's dependence on one of modern civilization's new-made fundamentals., GPS guides our world. Here at last is the amazing and well-told story of where it came from, how it works, and where it--and we--are going., [A] suitably precise and fascinating account of the modern evolution of [GPS]... Milner expertly deconstructs the implications of this monumental shift in human life., In this startling and persuasive book, American journalist Greg Milner shows how [GPS] saturates our existence... [Milner] suggests that GPS is as potent and pervasive a force as the Internet - if much less well understood., Seldom have I learned so much so effortlessly. . . . Every page was a treasure-house of fascinations: my temptation after finishing was to begin the book all over again, there being so much to absorb, all of it crucially important to understanding our world's dependence on one of modern civilization's new-made fundamentals., The reason that brains are so good at storing maps is because the brain is a map, and our collective internal map is now migrating somewhere else. Greg Milner's Pinpoint is a fascinating chronicle of how this happened and why--captured before the details had a chance to escape., One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books... By any standards, it is an extraordinary tale., Fascinating...Milner Expertly Deconstructs the Implications of this Monumental Shift in Human Life., Dramatically illustrating just what the GPS might be taking from the human race, Milner recounts the feats of early Polynesian seafarers who traversed wide Pacific expanses guided by nothing but their dauntless minds. . . . [A] fascinating probe into an increasingly ubiquitous technology., Mesmerizingly good...the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite., [A] compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitous--and what we lose when it's all we know of navigation., A compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitous--and what we lose when it's all we know of navigation., A deeply researched book with fascinating interludes... [Milner] explains the technological principles lucidly., [Milner] delves deep into the dense web of intersections between GPS--'the world's only free utility'--and all those other utilities we vitally depend on, with interesting side excursions into earthquake-detection and the GPS-assisted monitoring of offenders., Milner's detailed examples will leave you questioning the ways in which GPS has infiltrated our lives., Through a multitude of examples--from Polynesian navigation to precision agriculture to the U.S. military--the world according to GPS emerges, and with it a new way to understand our own sense of place and time... Milner's detailed examples will leave you questioning the ways in which GPS has infiltrated our lives., No technology has transformed the human landscape so completely, yet been taken for granted so quickly, as GPS. The reason that brains are so good at storing maps is because the brain is a map, and our collective internal map is now migrating somewhere else. Greg Milner's Pinpoint is a fascinating chronicle of how this happened and why--captured before the details had a chance to escape.
Dewey Decimal
910.285
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Trade
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23
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