Why the GPS revolution is two steps forward and one step back.
It used to be that every time anyone tried to go anywhere they’d never been, they’d have to scribble directions on a dirty napkin. Then they’d try to read that napkin while driving, with an actual paper map open across the steering wheel. When that failed and they were lost, people would go to a gas station, ask for directions, and maybe or maybe not get pointed in the right direction.
When I was a kid, I sat in the back seat of our car while my lost parents yelled at each other. I’d fill my diaper, and they wouldn’t notice because they would be so frustrated trying to figure out how to get to some restaurant in South Orange, New Jersey, two hours late. We really could have used GPS.
“Interesting,” I said. Once upon a time, when I first got my driver’s license, I got in my sister’s 1985 Pontiac T1000 to drive 80 miles south to visit my Grandpa Bill. After an hour of driving, I saw a “Welcome to New York” sign. I’d been driving north rather than south. Back then, if you were lost and needed to talk to someone, you had to find a “pay phone.” You’d put a quarter in a slot, and sometimes the phone worked. If you were lucky, the person on the other end had directions.
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