Pinpoint: How Gps Is Changing Our World Greg Milner Granta Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Science Geology And Agriculture

Over The Last Fifty Years Humanity Has Developed An Extraordinary Global Utility Which Is Omnipresent Universal And Available To All: Positioning System (Gps) A Network Of Twenty-Four Satellites Their Monitoring Stations On Earth It Makes Possible Almost All Modern Technology From Smartphone In Your Pocket Mars Rover Neither Internet Nor Cloud Would Work Without Changing Us Profound Ways We\ Ve Yet Come Terms With While Gps Brought Breathtakingly Accurate Methods Timekeeping Navigation Earthquake Tracking Our Overwhelming Reliance Having Unexpected Consequences Culture Ourselves Reshaping Thinking About Privacy Surveillance Brings Growing Danger Terrorism Neuroscientists Have Even Found That Using For May Be Affecting Cognitive Maps - Possibly Rearranging Grey Matter Heads Leading Increasingly Common Phenomenon \ Death By Gps\ Drivers Blindly Follow Devices Into Deserts Lakes Impassable Mountains Deeply Researched Inventive Fascinating Insights Way We Think Place World Pinpoint Reveals Technologies Design Help Can End Up Shaping Lives At Once Grand History Science Far-Reaching Book Contemporary Σελίδες: 336 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm