Magellan GPS Systems
30 August 2010
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Need Directions? Ask Magellan.
When Ferdinand Magellan tempted fate to throw him over the edge of the flat Earth in search of God, Gold, and Glory, little did he know that his exploits would make him a common household name—not just in history but in everyday use. Magellan Navigations, Inc. has made the explorers name synonymous with convenience by naming their company after him. Their trade is in Global Positioning Systems (GPS).
Maybe you know someone with a Magellan GPS system or a portable device or has a car with a Magellan 760 Roadmate. Since GPS is allegorically and literally everywhere nowadays, it’s not surprising that tourists suddenly pull out their portable GPS devices to see where to go next. And for someone needing directions, a Magellan GPS system definitely has much appeal in its name.
Since 1983, when former President Ronald Reagan issued the GPS directive due to a Korean airliner straying and being destroyed in USSR airspace, the Department of Defense’s technology has grown in popularity and use—and the trend is seemingly poised to phase out the use of maps and atlases in the near future. What might Magellan Navigations’ role be in a future where a technology like a Magellan GPS system pervades every vehicle, liner, and even individual pocket of everyone in the street?
Hopefully, this GPS trend doesn’t testify to more and more people being lost or geographically ignorant, because though the convenience, ease of use, and peace of mind GPS offers is welcome, I for one don’t want to see a day when you can’t ask anyone directions without them looking it up in their GPS portables.
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