Suitably alarmist CNN report about concerns that GPS is going to lead to what Jerome Dobson, the president of the American Geographical Society, terms “geoslavery”, or the control of people by tracking, monitoring, and even correcting their movements:
“What we are suggesting,” Dobson said, “is that we are only one technological step from placing a transponder in there that burns or stings a person if they step off a prescribed path by a meter. Or if they stay too long in one place. Or cross the path of another person they are prohibited from seeing, or if they congregate with other people. I can confine you to a place. You can’t go there. Or you must go there. And I can control it.”
