About the Book: Little Blue Dot: How the Global Positioning System Shaped the
Modern World
In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine
Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system in a book that
lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to
the phone in our pockets
This is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S.
government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that, in a matter of
decades, has transformed the way we understand space and time, making us
critically dependent on vulnerable technology we often forget