The Nation, May 8th, 1989
MONA LISA OVERDRIVE. By William Gibson. Bantam. 260 pp. $17.95.
Later this spring, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Reuters Holdings PLC will launch Globex, a worldwide computer ized trading system that will handle some of the Meres financial instruments during the hours the futures pits themselves are closed. In a rival move, the Chicago Board of Trade and Telerate plan to implement Aurora, a more colorful screen-based trading system unofficially named "pit Nintendo." Information has always been a commodity in the market, but these developments are significant because both Globex and Au...
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