How GPS Works (for dummies)

Here you are, alive and hopefully well in what multiple media along the years called?The Future. Not impressed? Well, that may be because this is not your future, only your plain and seemingly slow present. Do you scoff at the advanced micro computer in your pocket? Are you unimpressed with?driverless cars, 24 hours deliveries and drone technology? Well, chances are you are simply a user and not a?“knower”.

If you are like me, you probably grew up watching your dad tinkering with the family car and fixing the washer, but somewhere along the way that attitude towards our surrounding technology got lost, I grew up knowing how to use almost anything without having the slightest idea of how it works.

This is pernicious in multiple ways, personally it makes me feel helpless and overly dependent on consumption. My mind recoils in horror when faced with something deeper than the User Interface that was designed to translate the World’s complexity into my lazy user based and overly entertained brain.

Do you feel like this yourself? Chances are some of you do, and now what? Should we wallow in our own growing self-fulfilling ignorance or are we going to do something about it?

I don’t know about you, but I want to change, I want to know more, understand more, and I’m going to start with a big part of my professional life, something I use everyday –?GPS aka Global Positioning System.

It totally fits the profile, I work marketing at a?Navigation Software?company, It’s my job to know about the business, but there’s no real immediate need for me to know how it actually works, but my fresh perspective on life demands me to at least understand it enough to explain it in simple terms to another uninformed soul, so here we go.

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