Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

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Críticas: Milner is a brisk and funny guide.--Konstantin Kakaes (04/28/2016)

[A] welcome guide to where [GPS] came from, what it does and where it might be taking us.--Damian Whitworth

[A] suitably precise and fascinating account of the modern evolution of [GPS]... Milner expertly deconstructs the implications of this monumental shift in human life.--Tim Adams

An informative yarn.--James Anthony

A deeply researched book with fascinating interludes... [Milner] explains the technological principles lucidly.--Stephen Poole

GPS guides our world. Here at last is the amazing and well-told story of where it came from, how it works, and where it--and we--are going.--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Remarkably engaging... [T]he best business book about technology this year.--James Surowiecki (04/28/2016)

[A] joy to read... It will be a strong contender for my science book of 2016.--Clive Cookson (04/28/2016)

One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books... By any standards, it is an extraordinary tale.--Gillian Tett (04/28/2016)

[A] compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitous--and what we lose when it's all we know of navigation.--Matthew Daddona (04/28/2016)