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GPS
Title: GPS
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1273 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS), a system of 24 satellites circling the Earth, is a fairly new technology. As with a lot of new technologies there are innumerable advantages and uses… but there is also a downside to our increasing reliance on this system.
These days GPS is finding its way into cars, boats, planes, construction equipment, movie making gear, farm machinery, even laptop computers. It works by using satellites as reference points to calculate a …showed first 75 words of 1273 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1273 total…if we continue to increase our reliance on such technologies it may have an undesired result. The less we rely on ourselves and the more we look to someone or something else to inform us and instruct us, the more incompetent and less self-reliant we become.
http://www.trimble.com/gps/howgps/gpsfram1.htm
http://gpshome.ssc.nasa.gov/
http://www.gpsworld.com/0699/0699innov.html
http://www.g3oceanography.com/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/.html
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