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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.

Baker's new book, Numerati, examines the "mathematical modeling" of humanity -- and its potential consequenses.

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