As I opened the enviable gift of a GPS system this Christmas, I thought to myself, “Wow, I’ll never get lost again!” You just punch in the address, and this pint-sized screen with automated voice-via-satellite will guide you to your destination, right? Well, that’s the concept. However, I’ve found that since I’ve used it, there have been [and I assume, will continue to be] some glitches in the system. The satellites are not always accurate, the maps can be misleading, and the driver should have a backup, like the destination's phone number to call in case he is off by a block. Otherwise it is a useful contraption, but one that takes time to learn how to use…in order that we do not have to learn where we are going. An interesting parallelism developed as I thought on about the“Information Age” we claim to live in. As if technology is any sort of answer to the intrinsic problems of man. Perhaps trite, but worth noting, that with the technological boom in the last century, the literacy levels have also steadily dropped. This may sound surprising, what with all of the rage of trying to ...