You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
By Hiawatha Bray.
Description
The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPSand the consequent decline of privacyWhat does it mean to never get lost? You Are Here examines the rise of our technologically aided era of navigational omniscienceor how we came to know exactly where we are at all times. In a sweeping history of the development of location technology in the past century, Bray shows how radio signals created to carry telegraph messages were transformed into invisible beacons to guide ships and how a set of rapidly-spinning wheels steered submarines beneath the polar icecap. ...
ISBN(s)
9780465032853
