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The Popsci Predictions Exchange
Loren Michael
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A friend of mine told me about this over beers. It sounded interesting, and possibly of interest to D&Ders.
I'm really not sure how to explain this, so I'll just copy and paste from the web site.
I'm doing this. Thought the rest of you might be interested, and it seems like a decent excuse to pay attention to the world in general.
A friend of mine told me about this over beers. It sounded interesting, and possibly of interest to D&Ders.
I'm really not sure how to explain this, so I'll just copy and paste from the web site.
Welcome to the PPX, the first place to bet on the future of science and technology. It's easy and free: Log on, and we'll give you POP$250,000 in our virtual PopSci Dollars. Use that money to buy propositions you think are likely to happen. If other traders also want to buy, that proposition's price will go up, and you'll make PopSci bucks. Expand your portfolio with bets on energy, space, consumer technology and extreme science, and compete against other players for prizes and bragging rights.
EXAMPLE:
Featured Stock
Will Google.com overtake Yahoo.com as the world's most trafficked Web site by the end of 2007?
"Yahoo" never became a verb. "Google" has. Although it trailed Yahoo by several years, Google has raced to catch up in the search-engine and portal business. It's become the default search engine for most computer users, and it's set as the default home page in the Mozilla Firefox browser, which itself is continually gaining market share. On top of that, Google's services continue to grow in popularity. Gmail has taken off. And with the acquisition of YouTube, Google has brought one of the Web's most popular sites into its domain.
So, instead of stocks and the like... you "buy" real-world propositions.EXAMPLE:
Featured Stock
Will Google.com overtake Yahoo.com as the world's most trafficked Web site by the end of 2007?
"Yahoo" never became a verb. "Google" has. Although it trailed Yahoo by several years, Google has raced to catch up in the search-engine and portal business. It's become the default search engine for most computer users, and it's set as the default home page in the Mozilla Firefox browser, which itself is continually gaining market share. On top of that, Google's services continue to grow in popularity. Gmail has taken off. And with the acquisition of YouTube, Google has brought one of the Web's most popular sites into its domain.
I'm doing this. Thought the rest of you might be interested, and it seems like a decent excuse to pay attention to the world in general.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
But I'm gonna keep an eye on it anyway.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.