For the first time in history the navigator can completely rely on technology and travel successfully knowing nothing about navigation and very little about the environment. One’s orientation becomes a commodity generated by a complex machinery, and engaging with the environment becomes a matter of choice. A feature of the device paradigm that we have not discussed is that the opening of such choice usually results in further consumption, not engagement (i.e., the allure of technology in reducing labour and freeing us for leisure has typically resulted in more rather than less consumption).
— Aporta & Higgs (2005) Satellite Culture… Current Anthropology. 46: 5. p. 744
