Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

2003-07-30 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Trei, Peter wrote: Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 09:26 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: Also, NYT Article was http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?th But it sounds like they've chickened out, because various

Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

2003-07-29 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 04:20 PM, John Young wrote: Tim May wrote: Yes, a bunch of ideas futures markets have existed for nearly a decade. An acquaintance of mine, Robin Hanson, was actively promoting such things in the late 80s and may have been involved in some of the Extropians-type

Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

2003-07-29 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Steve Schear wrote: At 16:20 2003-07-29 -0700, John Young wrote: Tim May wrote: Yes, a bunch of ideas futures markets have existed for nearly a decade. An acquaintance of mine, Robin Hanson, was actively promoting such things in the late 80s and may have

Re: Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

2003-07-29 Thread Bill Stewart
Also, NYT Article was http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?th But it sounds like they've chickened out, because various people freaked about the implications. (And they only got as far as it being an incentive to commit terrorism, without getting to a funding method for