Global Positioning System (GPS)
concept · 15 episodes · JSON
Also known as: Global Positioning System, GPS
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … Do you think you’re in the sort of position that led to the creation of the Galileo constellation, Europe’s equivalent to the GPS satellite network, as …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … You know who’s streaming geomagentic information all the time, or GPS jitter? Your smartphones can, and we can use them to detect geomagnetic activity . You know who …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … to a location if you want to massage numbers enough into the requisite GPS coordinates. Traveling to the right locations would yield sweet progression of the story, narratives …
- Breaking the rules … But this quote stood out to me: “For instance, some models simply won't run if the infotainment system is broken; the navigation GPS provides the vehicle's …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … what your music tastes were, would know where you were because of your GPS location, would be accessible on a mobile device, and let you know in advance …
- So, What'd I Miss? … It's called APB and it "allows citizens to call in real-time GPS located crime reports from anywhere in the district". All those citizens? "They just became …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … We were the people dicking about with Nokia N95s marveling about how awesome it was to get such an amazing GPS receiver into such a tiny thing and …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … Turns out it's leaking my GPS location."[4] "A List of Exes Who Remember Me Every Day They Use My HBO Account"[5] "After He Cheated On …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … packing are performed by Kiva robots, deliveries made by shoving the packages overboard, GPS and inertial guidance systems tweaking fold-out fins deployed from the packaging cardboard itself …
- What Are The Civilian Applications?; The Way The World Works; Seeing Like A SpamSieve … I was reading Warren Ellis' Morning.Computer[1], and today's entry on the sheer mundanity of the Global Positioning System, a piece of cold-war era technology …
- Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge … The tractor drives itself with GPS, sure. But people still build ships and people still die building the anti-kaiju wall. Doctors and nurses still can't figure …
- The Material (5) - What It Wants; Transmedia Is Dead! … The "well, the algorithm says it, so it must be true" folk story of people blindly following GPS directions because hey, it turns out that we quite like …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … The argument goes that, these days, a $99 GPS device (or, again, Uber) is the kind of disruption that's waiting to happen to the London black cab …
- Supply Chain Management For Seven Billion; Too Early; WATCH_DOGS … Nokia Sports Tracker[1], something that was hacked together at Nokia that mainly used the built-in GPS of some of their devices to rudimentarily track your running …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … You get to illustrate this quite a lot with the enough-truth-to-them-to-not-be-entirely-apocryphal stories of people blindly following GPS instructions (because, of …