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

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 markets which arose a few years later (I recollect several efforts with varying degrees of success).

Yes, Robin Hanson worked on DARPA's PAM program. Here's his e-mail about it in May 2003: ----- http://www.mail-archive.com/armchair@gmu.edu/msg03309.html DARPA markets on MidEast