Global Positioning System

Yeah

... like, GPS was becoming a thing.

Oh, yeah.

So I don't really have that, like, deep brain-

I never drove to my friends' houses really-

Yeah

... unless they were super close, without GP- GPS.

Yeah, yeah.

Everything got done.

Isn't it crazy? Like, yeah, like, GPS just completely changed everything, you know? Like, remember when you went somewhere you'd never been before, and you had to research how to get there?

Like print, print out a bunch of MapQuest.

Or ask somebody at a gas station.

This approach ensures that the unique capabilities of the device are integrated into the product's core structure, not bolted on later.

The reason this matters is that mobile users interact with their devices through gestures, accelerometers, and GPS in ways that desktop users simply don't.

If you wait until the end of the project to address these interactions, you miss the opportunity to build them into the user's workflow.

Mobile-first planning turns these technical features into functional advantages from day one.

So in the same way that people who learn piano, they get different brain patterns.

Before GPS, London is a sort of famously non-grid, like New York's kind of a grid.

London is a famous like lower intestines region.

threaded like it's like your Christmas lights when you get your Christmas tree lights out it's all knotted up right so when cab drivers used to drive around London and they did brain scans on them they they're Spatial reasoning was immense.

Costner sails around drinking his own recycled pee, trading dirt like it's crypto, and generally looking annoyed that he's in a movie.

Meanwhile, little girl has a map to a mythical dry land tattooed on her back because apparently GPS didn't survive the apocalypse.

The villains are smokers, a gang of pirates who somehow have enough gasoline to run jet skis indefinitely in a world where civilization collapsed apparently centuries ago.

Their leader spends most of the film shouting, smoking, and proving that environmental sustainability was not part of his long-term strategy.

Here, how about this? Okay.

How about this? How about when it first happened, I'm going to say there probably were a lot of storms because what probably happened also when the polar ice caps melted and also after centuries is maybe even the magnetic poles might have switched.

So maybe that's why GPS doesn't work.

Because there was an issue with magnetic poles moving or changing or whatever.

And I was talking about how criminals do all kinds of things, right? They look at maps.

They look at GPS.

They wanna know where they're going, how they're gonna get out quick, what kind of car do I want to steal.

They look at computers.

And this matters because modern warfare basically doesn't work without space.

GPS, missile warning, drone navigation, secure communications, satellite imagery, targeting.

Take that away from a modern military and suddenly your billion-dollar weapons systems are deaf, blind, and lost.

Think of space superiority the same way that we think of air superiority.

And so let's hope it is deterrence, a Cold War 2.0, so to speak, where we just saber rattle, because if it ever really did become kinetic, it's going to cause a huge mess down here at zero gravity.

Yeah, undoubtedly.

What do you think would be the first things that actually start breaking if our satellites go down? Would that be our GPS, our drones, missile warning communications? How fast would the military start going dark?

Everything.

You pinch the map and you're driving and trying to read the map at the same time.

GPS is way more convenient, a hundredfold.

But...

So I'm not saying the technology is inferior.