Pinpoint
how gps is changing our world
$30.40
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 June 2017
Summary
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our Minds, Our Culture, and Our World
Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, it makes possible almost all modern technology, from the smartphone in your pocket to the Mars rover. Neither the internet nor the cloud would work without it. And it is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847087096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847087094 |
| Author: | Greg Milner |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Greg Milner
Greg Milner is the author of Perfecting Sound Forever, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A former editor at Spin, his writing has also appeared in Slate, the Village Voice, Wired, Salon, New York, Blender, Rolling Stone, the Word, the Sunday Times, and the Journal of Technology in Human Services. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
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