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How Technology Dumbs You Down- the Problem with Making Leadership Formulaic
- PaulHoule 5y agoI will push back on the GPS example. I use GPS as a tool to improve my geographical understanding. I get the most pleasure out of GPS on road trips when I am the navigator in the passenger seat and I've got an auto GPS stuck to the windshield in front of me with both Garmin and OSM atlases loaded and a New York travel atlas in my lap. (It doesn't change the fact that in rural areas of New York there are many roads that look OK on paper maps but aren't really passable. GPS maps tend to have very low weightings on that kind of road so they're unlike to send you down one, although there was that time I met a lady in the state forest who'd gotten her car stuck because the GPS sent her down a 'minimum maintenance road' that was closed Dec 1-Apr 1 and hadn't been plowed. She might have done OK if she hadn't turned around.) I used to walk in a residential neighborhood near where I worked that was full of "twisty little streets that all look alike" and my handheld GPS gave me the courage to go into the area and know I wasn't going to get spun around. Years later I was looking for a particular house, looked at the map at home, and drove to the location on my memory because I'd learned the area thoroughly with the aid of GPS.
- sherilm 5y agoTrue. You might find the below article in Atlantic interesting. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/why-the-navy-is-turning-to-the-stars/411298/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/why-t...
- PaulHoule 5y agoI had a close friend in college (1992 or so) who spent a few years at the Air Force Academy and she had learned celestial navigation there and was still into astronomy so it was something we practiced a few times for fun.