IDG Contributor Network: Personal expression in the digital age: how machines get between us

I was on an errand to a shop a few towns over from where I live, driving along the network of old farm roads that links these former New England settlements. In what are now the Western Suburbs of Boston, the best spots typically lie along narrow, winding, pot-holed, and many-times-patched roads, where all the big houses, prime land, golf courses and conservation set-asides can be found.Google Maps kept interrupting my journey with what must be its latest iOS update to tell me that it had f