Microprocessing

Google Maps Is Melting Your Brain

Apps that help you find your way may leave you feeling totally lost in the long run

Angela Lashbrook
Debugger
Published in
7 min readOct 29, 2020

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Google Maps on a phone mounted above a car dashboard.
Photo: georgeclerk/iStock/Getty Images

I had an English teacher in high school who would repeat the same line over and over again: “Life is what you pay attention to.” He’d scribble it furiously across the whiteboard. He’d yell at us to wake up from the…

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Angela Lashbrook
Debugger

I’m a columnist for OneZero, where I write about the intersection of health & tech. Also seen at Elemental, The Atlantic, VICE, and Vox. Brooklyn, NY.