The Birth Of Mass GPS
There was a time when our phones didn't have GPS capabilities. A time when cell phones cost $600.00, were the size of a brick, and only made calls. One would carry a beeper on His or Her person for a type of text-messaging service. We all take for granted today the ability of our phones and computers to have Google Maps GPS & Satellite "Uplinks." There was a time when this technology was reserved for only the most prestigious and esteemed intelligence communities. Massive server rooms were dedicated to the operation of a GPS Comm-Sat Uplink. Now, we can look (about one year in the past) at any physical location around the world down to "blocked/blurred" out license plates of vehicles around the world; even seeing the cloths a person was wearing. Every person is now walking around with access to the technology that required server rooms to run in the convenience of their own pockets. Think on the magnitude of this for a moment...We all have free public access to what was one of the most guarded and advanced technologies of the past. During the Cold War people had to rely on nothing more than photos, primary and secondary source accounts, and intelligence chatter that would more often than none prove to be nothing more than a wild goose chase. Don't take what you have for granted. People would have literally killed to gain access to and to protect simply the idea of Geo-Satellite Imagining. It's scary to think that if this technology is public, what is being used in the "non-existent" Private ;)