From the Sunday NYTimes - Internet, maps and webcams
The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/business/02speed.html
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
Published: January 1, 2011
Machines have largely taken over stock market trading, creating a new
technological order affecting nearly everyone who owns shares of stock
or mutual funds.
Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/science/02see.html
By STEVE LOHR
Published: January 1, 2011
Computerized surveillance systems can protect hospital patients, watch
for criminals — or invade your privacy.
Global Entertainment
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02fob-consumed-t.html
By ROB WALKER
Published: December 30, 2010
How online geo-tools and their tweakers make the surveillance state fun.
Rewired
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/magazine/02FOB-medium-t.html
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: December 30, 2010
The ideological implications of our new fiber-optic infrastructure.