2. Goldfinger: Follow that dot
In Goldfinger (1964), Bond attaches a tracking device to his target's Rolls-Royce and follows its position on a screen inside his Aston Martin. Watching it today, the remarkable thing is how unremarkable it looks: a driver consulting an electronic display to locate another vehicle.
The film's "homer" was a radio-tracking device, rather than satellite navigation. But the experience it imagined anticipated the way we now use GPS tracking: put a device on something, then watch where it goes.
The modern GPS programme began taking shape in 1973. Bond's dashboard had already made the idea look perfectly natural almost a decade earlier. Q would probably have been disappointed to discover that the mass-market version mostly helps locate delivery vans. The film's tracking system · GPS history
