In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Sybil Patrick says “the clues were there for months” yet she didn’t put them together: the locks to her vacant brownstone in Harlem had been changed and possessions were moved around with seemingly no explanation. Finally, she discovered that “the house had been sold, without her knowledge, about a year earlier for roughly $750,000.” Using documents available online, cyber criminals managed to steal Ms. Patrick’s identity and sell the home, an increasingly common crime, as there are now approximately 120 cases under investigation in New York alone.
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A recent CNBC article asks its readers, if they are wondering how Amazon will impact the city it chooses for its second headquarters, then “just take a look at its presence in the Seattle metropolitan area.” The Emerald City no doubt continues to feel the impact of tech companies within its thriving Silicon Forest, most notably with Amazon, whose footprint is now at nearly 14 million square feet, enough to fill five Empire State Buildings.
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In 1907, when Seattle annexed Ballard, Ravenna and West Seattle, transportation meant nothing more than sailing routes, roads, bridges and sometimes cow paths. Today, transportation networks are technological systems whose scopes range from international airport instruments to GPS-enabled devices on your dashboard or in your pocket. New applications are transforming every mode and aspect of transportation, integrating it ever more closely with our daily activities. Meanwhile, governments struggle to keep the public infrastructure aligned with this all-encompassing transformation.
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