Countless GPS satellites in orbit send a synchronised signal via atomic clocks. The receiver calculates the distance to the satellite through the delays in the signal. From this, the software in a GPS receiver can determine a location as a radius. If the device captures and evaluates two GPS signals, the location is determined on a straight line. Three signals from orbit are needed to be able to analyse and pinpoint a precise location.
What was originally implemented for military and maritime purposes, will in the near future be found in every device - location sensors. We will know - and those of whom we don’t know who know will know - where we are, where we are going as well as how we are feeling, our desires and what we are currently doing. Huge data centres will collect and analyse this data. These “Big Data” archives will interpret general trends while simultaneously analysing individual desires. We will move through the world while the world constantly changes and adapts to our personal profiles. Big Brother will calculate the intersections of our potential needs if we happen to be out and about in pairs. Just married couples will see advertising for baby clothes on billboards, whereas a few seconds later the same billboard will try to make Flatrate-Gangbang-Parties appealing to a sex tourist.
We will not be able to talk about Paris anymore, because, more than ever before, each person will experience their own simultaneously created version of Paris. The fallen Navigator is a satellite that enables this. It is the Navigator, the Big Brother that we never see, without which, however, nothing no longer works.
