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The Future of Global Positioning Systems
Since its creation by the United States in 1973, it has surpassed the capabilities that anyone had originally thought of the global positioning system. The future of global positioning systems look bright, in that, the system has helped improve people’s lives and with more research being done to advance GPS, one should certainly think there is no reason to believe it won’t continue to do so.

Ethical Issues of GPS
At the present time, GPS is used for to predict the weather, create maps, and monitor endangered species but many are concerned with how the system will be used in the future. Many ethical issues are brought up in that GPS has the capabilities to track individual human beings anywhere on the planet. This brings up a privacy issue that will need to be addressed in the near future. Laws will need to be passed that will protect the public that will limit some of the potential usage of the global positioning systems. Although, it will have to be debated as some of the ways it is used to track certain things is extremely useful. For example, it can be used in the police force, to track stolen cars, and track the other cars in the police force. As of now, there are no restrictions on specific data collected from the device, however there are a few limits that are in place to protect individual privacy. It is quite clear that there are many issues surrounding the GPS’s that will make it a hot topic at some point in the decade.

Future Usage
There are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the future usage of the global positioning system. The growth of its usage has been apparent in the past and it is predicted to be used at an increasing growing rate in the years to come. As well, not only will the usage increase but the number of fields that it will be applied in should inflate. A specific prediction from the "University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies, reports that by the year 2010, there will be over 50 million GPS users that use the system in the industries of automobiles, ships, farm vehicles, aircraft, and military systems."

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