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Re: "GPS is Killing Lighthouses"

From: <6nsmc4z02~at~sneakemail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:24:09 -0600
To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

Mark my words. They're going to regret this...

Roland

Terry Harpold tharpold-at-english.ufl.edu |Jules Verne Forum| wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> A bit off a primary Vernian path, perhaps, but I thought that some here might be interested in this English-language article in Spiegel Online, observing that increasing use of GPS (Global Positioning System) may mean the demise of the lighthouse:
>
> <http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,340729,00.html>
>
> Hmm... _Le Système de positionnement global du bout du monde_, for all its evident irony, doesn't have such a pleasant sound as the title of a novel.
>
> TH
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Terry Harpold
> Assistant Professor
> Department of English
> University of Florida
>
> <tharpold~at~acm.org>
> <tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu>
> <http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold>
>
> "Reading in no way obliges you to understand."
>
>
>

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