This Is Your Brain On GPS
Groundwork has always focused on the relationship between culture and environment. This newsletter, we offer you an episode of one of our favorite podcasts: Outside/In from New Hampshire Public Radio.
The episode focuses on what happens when you take a species (that’s us) that has a keen sense of direction and sense of place, and replace nearly all their navigation through the world with GPS in the span of just a few years. As you might suspect, our relationship with the world, both built and wild, has changed so much since the advent of GPS navigation on smartphones. This episode provides some incredible food for thought about what else we might reclaim of our humanity through a shift in our relationships with the world around us.