[LINK] GPS and the End of the Road

[Michael Skeggs mike@bystander.net]

On 22 August 2011 08:29, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> A friend sent me a fascinating essay on GPS and the directions of modern technology.  Some of the points they make are similar to ones I've made here before.  Some are rather different.
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> Rather than being filled with adventure and the possibilities of freedom, the GPS-enabled, location-aware adventures of Sal and Dean or Huck and Jim somehow sound dreary before they have begun, filled with anticlimax, boredom, and restlessness. How can this be, when what these technologies seem to promise is a way of freshly opening up the world?

I suggest the biggest change has been the ageing of the author of the
article. Nineteen-year-olds today don't appear to be lacking for
adventures because of GPS. I know some who have spent a few months in
Laos and Cambodia this year, and they seem to be having enough
adventures to give their mother's heart attacks.
Regards,
Michael Skeggs