Tag Archives: Research

I won!

By alex | Published: 7/31/2003
Just heard that I lost the race to become treasurer for the Association of Internet Researchers. I’ve already received a letter of congratulations (thanks Eszter!). Truth is that I already have too much on my plate, and that I am not at all disappointed in having that potential responsibility lifted. Besides, this leaves me to […]
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Wooosh

By alex | Published: 7/29/2003
That’s the sound of the shortest new idea in futures research being quickly purged from the collective memory. FutureMAP is no more, it is a dead project. It has passed on, ceased to be, run down the the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible. It is an ex-project. So, who’s going to be the […]
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‘Unbelievably stupid’

By alex | Published: 7/29/2003
That’s how Sen Byron Dorgan described a new DARPA project (FutureMAP) that allows for trading in global security futures. “Insensitive,” perhaps, “unpolitic” probably, but I don’t know about stupid. Presumably anyone with some cash could bet on a particular event (say, the assassination of a world leader) within a particular timeframe. Of course, this is […]
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What are you doing?

By alex | Published: 7/28/2003
Having recently regained the full use of my hands, I am back to summer work. What work is that you ask? I have a bunch of things I want to complete before the Great International Reset Day (August 15): Email: Catching up with two weeks of unanswered email — sorry all. NGO hyperlinks:I’m working with […]
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