You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves

　　慶幸科技帶來導航衛星，才讓你出門總是找對方向嗎？You Are Here由過去百年的發展歷史看追蹤定位科技。由最開始導引船隻的無線電訊號到現在的GPS，以前通訊科技多為軍事用途，現在卻為每個人所用。智慧型手機等設備讓每人都可以管別人家的閒事，那麼政府來管你家的事也就不意外了。本書囊括來自科學家、太空人、發明家與創業家的故事，說明人類的通訊與定位技術如何由最原始的動機：探勘未知區域，發展到現在人人行跡無所遁形的地步。



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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.

Hiawatha Bray is a technology reporter for the Boston Globe, where he has been on staff since 1995. He has also written for Wired, Black Enterprise, Fast Company and Christianity Today. Bray lives in Quincy, Massachusetts.