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When GPS makes you a stranger in your own community

I use GPS everywhere now and I realized I cannot find my way around my own neighborhood without it anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dependence on navigation technology can sever our embodied relationship with place and belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African philosophy of technology — Ubuntu and the examined tool?”

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