Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

PinpointWhile GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate information about our planetary environment and physical space, it has also created new forms of human behavior. We have let it saturate the world’s systems so completely and so quickly that we are just beginning to confront the possible consequences. A single GPS timing flaw, whether accidental or malicious, could bring down the electrical grid, hijack drones, or halt the world financial system. The use, and potential misuse, of GPS data by government and corporations raise disturbing questions about ethics and privacy. GPS may be altering the nature of human cognition—possibly even rearranging the gray matter in our heads.PinpointPinpoint