If someone following satnav is a software driven human, what's someone following a paper map? The quote takes a very dystopian view of the augmenting of humans

If someone following satnav is a software driven human, what's someone following a paper map? The quote takes a very dystopian view of the augmenting of humans with technology, sure there are people who will blindly follow the directions/"knowledge" of a machine, but just as many will be consciously and intelligently using the machine as a tool to further their own goals. As above, so below. The comment mentioning people above/below the API doesn't remember how much background stuff us developers use every day to be capable of so much more (and also less) than the developers of yore.