NDLI: GPS navigation…but what is it doing to us?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Robbins, J.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Rutgers University (Robbins, J.)
Abstract	In the classic film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch and Sundance try every devious trick they know to lose the posse chasing them. Yet they keep coming on, prompting Butch to exclaim in exasperation: “Who are those guys?” Spotting one man on the ground, looking for clues, Sundance thinks it's Lord Baltimore, a “full-blooded Indian…who could track anybody, over anything, day or night.” Perhaps the fictional Lord Baltimore was portrayed a sigma or two out on the bell curve of Native American tracking ability, but survival in a pre-GPS navigational milieu demanded such skills. This paper will examine the flip side of GPS navigation, asking what the technology doing it all for us is also doing to us. The conventional wisdom insists that we have better things to do than find our own way from here to there without turn by turn directions. While it may be true that losing the ability to find one's own way, as once we were compelled, may be no great loss, as a tributary feeding into the river of what's going on across the board of human skill erosion, it's a symptom of far more serious summing going on.
Starting Page	309
Ending Page	318
File Size	237833
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424477777
e-ISBN	9781424477760
DOI	10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514623
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-06-07
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Global Positioning System Navigation Rivers Humans Vehicles Testing Digital audio players TV Application software Technological innovation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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