Little Blue Dot
- ISBN #9780008666972
- Katherine Dunn
- Paperback
- Due 30th June
- Due 30th June
Little Blue Dot
- ISBN #9780008666972
- Katherine Dunn
- Paperback
- Due 30th June
- Due 30th June
$34.77 ex GST
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This is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that, in a matter of decades, has transformed the way we understand space and time, making us critically dependent on vulnerable technology we often forget is even there. It is a system that was conceived of as a military product designed for war, but which has since evolved into a vital everyday tool that tells us where we are and when at any given point. But its use doesn't stop there: GPS has transformed our navigation systems and our global trade, our farms and our supermarkets, our stop lights, banking networks, and our energy systems. It overturned online dating, exercise regimens, travel planning and takeaways. It reshaped our daily lives, and then it transformed us. When GPS took away our familiarity with getting lost, it also stripped us of our ability to hide - turning our place in the world into a mappable, knowable entity, and put us, a blinking blue dot on a screen, at its centre.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 30/06/2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Pages: 384
- Dimensions (mm): 234x153x30mm
- Weight: 480g
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This is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that, in a matter of decades, has transformed the way we understand space and time, making us critically dependent on vulnerable technology we often forget is even there. It is a system that was conceived of as a military product designed for war, but which has since evolved into a vital everyday tool that tells us where we are and when at any given point. But its use doesn't stop there: GPS has transformed our navigation systems and our global trade, our farms and our supermarkets, our stop lights, banking networks, and our energy systems. It overturned online dating, exercise regimens, travel planning and takeaways. It reshaped our daily lives, and then it transformed us. When GPS took away our familiarity with getting lost, it also stripped us of our ability to hide - turning our place in the world into a mappable, knowable entity, and put us, a blinking blue dot on a screen, at its centre.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Publication Date: 30/06/2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Pages: 384
- Dimensions (mm): 234x153x30mm
- Weight: 480g
- Delivery & Returns
