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It is particularly appropriate that the AAG's Centennial
Celebration should prompt the publication of a volume devoted to
Geography and Technology. New technologies have always been
important in advancing geographic understanding, but never have
they been so thoroughly and rapidly transformative of the
discipline as at this stage in geography's evolution. Just as new
technologies have profoundly expanded both research possibilities
and the knowledge base of other disciplines, such as biology,
physics or medicine, so too are the revolutionary new geographic
technologies developed during the past few decades extending
frontiers in geographic research, education and applications. They
are also creating new and resurgent roles for geography in both
society and in the university. This trend is still accelerating, as
the integration of geographic technologies, such as the global
positioning system and geographic information systems (GPS/GIS), is
creating an explosion of new "real-time, real-world" applications
and research capabilities. The resultant dynamic space/time
interactive research and management environments created by
interactive GPS/GIS, among other technologies, places geography
squarely at the forefront of advanced multidisciplinary research
and modeling programs, and has created core organization management
tools (geographic management systems) which will dramatically
change the way governments and businesses work in the decades
ahead. While these and other important geographic technologies,
including remote sensing, location-based services, and many others
addressed in this book, are forging new opportunities for geography
and geographers, they also pose challenges.
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