Minority Report-style trends & technologies watch, item #4

Terry Gross interviews Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati:

Our Digital Lives, Monitored By A Hidden 'Numerati'

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Fresh Air from WHYY, September 29, 2008 · Most people generate an immense amounts of digital data during a single day — often without a second thought. But Stephen Baker, a senior writer at BusinessWeek, warns that the information generated by email messages, credit card purchases, cell phones calls and Internet shopping is being monitored by a group of entrepreneurial mathematicians, who are poised to use it to control human behavior.

Stephen Baker has written for BusinessWeek for over twenty years, and is the coauthor of Blogspotting.net.