Someone at the Pentagon read Shockwave Rider over the weekend

[John Young]

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:

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