Blog Editor’s Note: Tracking and peoples’ reaction to it is an entire field of study on its own. While reading “Pinpoint – How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds” we were surprised to come upon an entire chapter devoted to behavioral science.
On reflection, though, it was probably the most important chapter. Because it is not our technology that is important, it is what we do with it and what it does to us that really matters.
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