e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Choice Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Bray, Hiawatha.
Subjects
Geographic information systems -- History.
Electronics in navigation -- History.
Geospatial data.
Global Positioning System.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Bray, Hiawatha.
by title:
You are here : from ...
by call number:
910.285 B827y
Search the Web
Bray, Hiawatha.
Geographic information systems -- History.
Electronics in navigation -- History.
Geospatial data.
Global Positioning System.
MARC Display
You are
here
: from the
compass
to
GPS
, the
history
and
future
of
how
we
find
ourselves
/ Hiawatha Bray.
by
Bray, Hiawatha.
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, c2014.
Call #:
910.285 B827y
Subjects
Geographic information systems --
History
.
Electronics in navigation --
History
.
Geospatial data.
Global Positioning System.
ISBN:
9780465032853 (hardback)
0465032850 (hardback)
Description:
xiii, 258 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The hard way -- The new wave -- Out for a spin -- In transit -- Found in space -- The accidental navigators -- Long shots -- A map of one's own -- Checking in -- On the spot.
Summary:
"The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPS-and the consequent decline of privacy What does it mean to never get lost? You Are
Here
examines the rise of our technologically aided era of navigational omniscience-or
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 ice cap. But while most of these technologies were developed for and by the military, they are now ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Our phones are now smart enough to pinpoint our presence to within a few feet-and nosy enough to share that information with governments and corporations. Filled with tales of scientists and astronauts, inventors and entrepreneurs, You Are
Here
tells the story of
how
humankind ingeniously solved one of its oldest and toughest problems-only to herald a new era in which it's impossible to hide. "--Provided by publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.