Roads? in the future there are no roads.

Ah don't trust the government signs ;) Actually the recent book Market Forces by Richard K Morgan probably is good for this talk as it displays highway GPS car battles. Not sure about pedestrians though. I haven't read this but I am just reading only recent stuff lately and probably not as well read as allot of people here yet : )
There are just too many people in small areas, too much managed housing and managed people for that matter, but if you go out to the country still too random with all of the vehicle gadgets. I wouldn't even race there. Of course they have tracks now but such a pervasive society. Which is great I always dreamed of it but...

"...Bush has admitted that he gave orders that allowed the NSA to eavesdrop on a small number of Americans without the usual requisite warrants."

The government has always done this but the privacy barrier decreases exponentially with technol-o-gy. I was reading something interesting in the book Spin State where like AI was replacing government somehow : ()
It's like a guy using a cell phone (or thinking a thought soon, I will check out The Demolished Man) just to make a simple call but then he finds himself wrapped up in an international conspiracy just for the fact that he is connected to this powerful ALL Net. The one fact. Cool book title 'The Fact.' But, does information really identify total reality, not always because reality is cross dimensional and morphs. The information age moves aside for the multidimensional participation or spiritual age.
We have the ability to have info but were just not organizing it properly.