Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
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He told me about new 3-D graphics cards in mainstream PCs from companies like Nvidia and ATI. He told me about fast broadband Internet access, and about more powerful mobile devices and far faster wireless networks. He leaned forward, his voice rising above the mariachi band. “You know these things have GPS chips in them now,” he explained excitedly, holding up his Motorola flip phone. “It’s required by law, and all the handset makers and wireless carriers are going to have to comply with the requirement that 911 calls from mobile phones have to be able to be located. Can you imagine what that is going to mean?”
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Andrew Lee
“I don’t want us to build a product for today’s computers. We want to build a product for where technology is going,”