Hambling, David. "GPS Signals Now Help
You Call Your Mother, Power Your Home, And Even Land Your Plane.." New Scientist
209.2803 (2011): 44-47.Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Apr. 2013.
Every day, many activities rely on the use of global positioning
systems technologies. Airports use global positioning systems to track every
airplane to coordinate their estimated time of arrival to keep the aircraft on
time for the passengers and to keep a steady flow of aircraft landing at the airport
all day. Banks and stock exchanges use the same technology to time stamp the
deliveries of large amounts of money to prevent fraud. Cell phone companies use
them to coordinate off which tower the customer will receive the strongest
signal. GPS’s are being used in everyday life without people knowing it. With
the application of numerous uses for the GPS society is becoming more dependent
on them as a piece of technology. But there is also a device available to the
public which is designed to jam nearby GPS units. These jammers have already affected
airports and caused chaos in the air controller towers. These jammers can shut
down all the runways of an airport, which is just another example of how our
society is becoming more dependent on technology, especially global positioning
systems.
The author of this source is David Hambling. In his article he mentions
the results of experiments conducted by the U.S. Navy in 2010, and mentions the
event of the Newark New Jersey International Airport in 2010, where it was
believed to be a trucker on the New Jersey Turnpike who accidentally jammed the
GPS signals for the airport.
This article fits into my essay because it mentions many more
uses of GPS technology, and clearly makes many more points of how dependent our
society is on GPS devices. It also has some info on how GPS technology works
which will be useful in my intro for my article.
I tried to even the lines up at the top with the citation but this website jacked them all up after I posted it.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a well written annotative bibliography. The citation is well cited, you have your summary, reliability, and implications. Also, I have an understanding of the technology used here. The only thing I would like to comment on is that there seems to be a lot of summary. Maybe you can just add in a little analysis so we can see your point of view on the topic you about the technology your are speaking about.
ReplyDeletegreat summary on the book, but you are missing the last part.
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ReplyDeleteok..i think you have all the pieces of information that need to be included, but the summary seems longer.Overall, you have everything the professor is looking for.
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