Greg Milner is the author of Pinpoint and Perfecting Sound Forever, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His writing has appeared in Wired, New York, Slate, Village Voice, Salon, Spin, and Rolling Stone. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.
"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 Energy*
"Gripping…GPS is an engineering marvel, a global utility and a
source of new threat all at once."
*New York Times Book Review*
"[Milner] delves deep into the dense web of intersections between
GPS—'the world’s only free utility'—and all those other utilities
we vitally depend on, with interesting side excursions into
earthquake-detection and the GPS-assisted monitoring of
offenders."
*Guardian*
"[A] compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitous—and
what we lose when it's all we know of navigation."
*Matthew Daddona - Outside*
"Milner is a brisk and funny guide."
*Konstantin Kakaes - Wall Street Journal*
"A compelling exploration of how GPS became so ubiquitous—and what
we lose when it’s all we know of navigation."
*Outside*
"Fascinating…Milner expertly deconstructs the implications of this
monumental shift in human life."
*Tim Adams - Observer*
"Milner's detailed examples will leave you questioning the ways in
which GPS has infiltrated our lives."
*Science*
"In Pinpoint, Greg Milner gives us a much-needed account of GPS,
its history, philosophy, and the overwhelming consequences of its
success. Funny, scary, and tremendously readable, Pinpoint will be
an eye-opening thrill for anyone who has watched their blue dot
dance around an online map."
*Andrew Blum, author of Tubes*
"Whenever people theorize about the collision of technology and
culture, the Internet tends to consume all the oxygen in the room.
But there is another global system that's taking over our lives in
an even more insidious fashion, with stranger implications for the
future of humanity. Pinpoint dissects the modern age of mapping and
shows the hidden dangers of a world where nothing is hidden at
all."
*Chuck Klosterman*
"[An] entirely brilliant history of that most loved-and-loathed new
technology, GPS. Every page was a treasure-house of fascinations:
my temptation after finishing was to begin the book all over again,
there being so much to absorb, all of it crucially important to
understanding our world’s dependence on one of modern
civilization’s new-made fundamentals."
*Simon Winchester*
"The reason that brains are so good at storing maps is because the
brain is a map, and our collective internal map is now migrating
somewhere else. Greg Milner’s Pinpoint is a fascinating chronicle
of how this happened and why—captured before the details had a
chance to escape."
*George Dyson*
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