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Greg Milner and
Eric Michael Summerer (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Tantor Media Inc
Publication date
May 3, 2016
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Mp3 una
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781515954699
ISBN-10
1515954692
Dimensions
0.60 by 5.30 by 7.40 in.
Original list price
$29.99
Other format details
sci/tech
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Omnipresent, free, and available to all, GPS powers everything from your phone to the Internet to the Mars Rover. Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity. While GPS has revolutionized methods of timekeeping, navigation, and seismological prediction, it has also altered human behavior, introducing phenomena such as "Death by GPS," in which drivers blindly follow their devices into deserts, lakes, and impassable mountains. Milner also shows the desperate vulnerabilities in the system we now use to predict the weather, track prisoners, and land airplanes. Delving into the neuroscience of cognitive maps and spatial recognition, Milner's inventive and timely book is at once a grand history of the scientific urge toward precision and perfection and a revelatory philosophy of how humans understand themselves in the world.
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CD/Spoken Word
With Greg Milner |
Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (May 3, 2016)
9781515904694 | details & prices | 6.50 × 5.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $39.99
About: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System.
About: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System.
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With Greg Milner |
Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (May 3, 2016)
9781515954699 | details & prices | 5.30 × 7.40 × 0.60 in. | List price $29.99
About: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System.
About: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System.
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