Geography's Quantitative Revolutions: Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data

by Elvin Wyly

Book Overview

Do you have a smartphone? Billions of people on the planet now navigate their daily lives with the kind of advanced Global Positioning System capabilities once reserved for the most secretive elements of America';s military-industrial complex. But when so many people have access to the most powerful technologies humanity has ever devised for the precise determination of geographical coordinates, do we still need a specialized field of knowledge called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949199096
• ISBN13: 9781949199093
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.9"