Quotes from Greg Milner

When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune

This is... an attempt to find some of the important fault lines in the narrative of recorded history--the points where people with access to the technology decided that *this* was how recordings should sound, and *this* is what it means to make a record. Ultimately, this is the story of what it means to make a recording of music--a *representation* of music--and declare it to be music itself.

Perhaps the major tenet of Pinpoint is that GPS barely exists—not just because the signal itself is so weak, but also because GPS is a remarkably diffuse concept. At root, GPS is just a radio signal, maintained and perfected by a vast infrastructure that is ultimately linked to the United States Department of Defense.

Houses near the tracks seem to fly by, while mountains in the distance keep pace with the train over long distances. In etak, the canoe is the train and the stars the mountains. The stars are fixed in the sky. The islands, like the houses, are in motion.

The significance of the chronometer cannot be overstated. Its effect on the world rivals that of any other invention, including the printing press and the microchip.

beets were washed, sliced, and boiled to extract a syrup, which was then filtered, carbonated, combined with lime and sulfurous acid, evaporated, crystallized, and centrifuged to produce white sugar.

information would be sent back to Washington, converted into punch cards, and programmed into the computer. Between seven to nine hours after liftoff, the computer would have enough data to compute the satellite's exact orbit and velocity.

we are just now beginning to take stock of how GPS can affect the cognitive map. We may be witnessing the mass narrowing of the human cognitive map—as a construct (a decrease in navigational ability), but possibly also on a more literal level, an actual reordering of our neurons.

By 2009, more than half of all offenders in the U.S. subject to GPS tracking were sex offenders. And sales of GPS monitors were on the rise, amounting to a third of all monitoring systems in use, with more added each year.

If you knew exactly where that moving object was, at any given moment, wouldn't that tell you the exact location of the observer on the ground?

The potential problem with these arrangements is that the exchange clocks, like so many extremely accurate clocks in this world, receive their time signal from GPS.

The Transit system was fully operational by 1964.

They find no need and therefore have had no practice in explaining to someone like myself who starts out thinking of a voyage as a process in which everything is fixed except the voyager.

GPS fleet management system—for companies with more than 350 vehicles, the adoption rate is approaching 60 percent. The worldwide fleet management industry, valued at $12 billion in 2014, is on track to be worth more than $35 billion by 2019

What happened in World War II was a travesty," Parkinson says. "There was no precision weapon delivery. Bombs were delivered helter-skelter everywhere. They were as much an element of terror as an element of actually destroying things." The Air Force clung to this approach in Vietnam. "They were accustomed to the World War II tradition of carpet-bombing

Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead, the Columbia University robotics engineer Hod Lipson and

The United States Air Force never really wanted GPS.

Knowledge of GPS coordinates allowed tanks and mechanized infantry to move quickly, cutting down on the risk of accidents and friendly fire, especially during the first forty-eight hours of the war, when bad weather caused visibility to drop to as little as five meters.

Russia's most prominent military scientist noted that Desert Storm showed that terms like "front lines" and "flanks," and the idea that winning a war means occupying enemy territory, were no longer relevant.