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Pinpoint by greg milner7/5/2023 We have let it saturate the world's systems so completely and so quickly that we are just beginning to confront the possible consequences. In Pinpoint, Greg Milner takes us on a fascinating tour of a hidden system that touches almost every aspect of our modern life.While GPS has brought us breathtakingly accurate information about our planetary environment and physical space, it has also created new forms of human behavior. It is as ubiquitous and essential as another Cold War technology, the Internet. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predict weather, locate oil deposits, measure neutrinos, grow our food, and regulate global finance. Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System.
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