X marks the self
Thomas Jones, 16 November 2017
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World
by Greg Milner.
Granta, 336 pp., £9.99, June 2017,978 1 84708 709 6 Show More
by Greg Milner.
Granta, 336 pp., £9.99, June 2017,
“... said to have received minor injuries; presumably he hadn’t stopped to ask them for directions. Greg Milner includes a few stories about satnav fails in Pinpoint, his lively history of satellite navigation technology – his central chapter is called ‘Death by GPS’ – but one of the eye-opening things about his book is quite how far-reaching the ... ”