Disordered Cogitations

Time Magazine has in intersting story this week by Barbara Kiviat, entitled, "HAL on Wheels." It reports that in the United Arab Emirates, all cars will have GPS and wireless. The location and speed of the car will be continuously sent to the nearest police station and when the car exceeds the limit, a ticket will be written. (Now, they just have to get everyone's credit card number on file, so they can just bill the driver automatically!) Business are interested, so they can target their ads to cars that are close by. Won't the future be wonderful?