From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 18:01:11 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter C. McCluskey [mailto:pcm@rahul.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 2:10 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Politicians attack idea futures
>
>
>
> The DARPA experiment that Robin helped design has been cancelled:
> http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ny-terrormarket0729,0,6260339.st
> ory?coll=nyc-topnews-short-navigation
>
> CNBC is running a poll about whether it was a good idea.
> Please vote at:
> http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/P56709.asp
>
> The reports indicate that it planned to provide anonymity (it's not
> clear how reliable such anonymity would have been), which could have
> enabled terrorists to profit from crimes under some
> conditions (probably
> only after years of testing under which the amounts traded gradually
> increased to levels that matter).
>
> Don't despair too much - life insurance was initially attacked in
> similar terms.
I've run this idea by a sample of people working with me today, and they
were repulsed by it. It's depressing, because it seemed like an obviously
excellent idea to me when I first heard about it (yesterday). When you
contrast it with the alternatives for dealing with terrorism, it's the idea
of the decade to my mind.
I don't know what you can do about this sort of thing, short of releasing
intelligence enhancing nanobots into the drinking water.
Emlyn
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