Pinpoint: how GPS is changing technology, culture, and our minds

Introduction: The whisper from space

Part I: Calculating Route

1. Tupaia goes home

2. The when and the where

3. Global reach, global power

4. Ranging the perfect beet

Part II: You Have Arrived

5. Death by GPS

6. The hornet's nest

7. Better living through tracking

8. Return from mid-ice

9. Tied together (40.74375° N 73.9835° W)

Epilogue: Direction home

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Introduction: The whisper from space

Calculating route. Tupaia goes home ; The when and the where ; Global reach, global power ; Ranging the perfect beet

You have arrived. Death by GPS ; The hornet's nest ; Better living through tracking ; Return from mid-ice ; Tied together (40.74375° N 73.9835° W)

Epilogue: Direction home.