Chapter 9. Geolocation API

In the last 50 years, two inventions have caused communication to change drastically, impacting almost every part of our society.

The first invention is the Internet. In ancient (pre-Internet) times, knowledge was a scarce resource, highly concentrated in the brains of experts and the pages of books. Most of the content in the world was not readily discoverable: You did not know, for instance, if your town had a knitting club, and it was not necessarily easy to find out. Simply finding potential vacation locations took enormous amounts of research, and many people would pay experts (travel ...

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