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The wayfinders

23 mins | May 30, 2020
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Ancient wayfinding skills are more than just navigation — they help us achieve a sense of place. The wayfinding skills of our ancestors sustained humans for tens of thousands of years. However, Michael Bond, author of Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way, contemplates how modern technology has turned navigation into an easily accessible commodity, and how much we lose as a society because of that.

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