Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

[Eric Murray]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:48:11AM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20030729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_market_10
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> WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up 
> a stock-market style system in which investors would bet 
> on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the 
> Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence 
> and useful predictions while investors who guessed right 
> would win profits.


Jim Bell should have applied for a DARPA grant!


(check out this and other programs at http://www.darpa.mil/iao/programs.htm)

Eric