Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 29, 2003 @01:08AM from the too-real-for-words dept.

Elysdir writes "DARPA is creating an idea futures market, the Policy Analysis Market, to try to predict events in the Middle East. See Bloomberg article for more info." Read this article. I mean it. This is amazing. Update: 07/29 14:45 GMT by J : The NYT story claims "The White House also altered the Web site so that the potential events ... that were visible earlier in the day ... could no longer be seen," but those example images are still being served: Jordanian overthrow, bidding on assassinations, cool graphics... Update: 07/29 16:44 GMT by M : Looks like the publicity was too much.

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Fact Meets Fiction Again by wizard992 · 2003-07-29 01:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

So has anyone else read The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner? I am just waiting to hear the term Delphi used by somone in the government.

I could use my tranquilizer now please.
Re:Pentagon Abandons Terrorism Betting Plan by RLiegh · 2003-07-29 04:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

Mod Parent Up.

I would email taco about this, except that after reading the obnoxious "don't email me I won't read it" tripe on his web page, I can't be bothered [since he WON'T be bothered to read the mail in the first place].

I would give you mod points if I had them. Let's hope they update the story some time in *this* millenium.