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

A Financial TimesBest Book of 2016
ASunday TimesBest Book of 2016Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology—but is changing us in profound ways.Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. 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 g…