Question: Can you convert attention into $ or the reverse?
Josef
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Bone [mailto:jbone@jump.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 5:40 PM
> To: Gregory Alan Bolcer
> Cc: FoRK
> Subject: Stupid Idea Series # uhhhhhh
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> This one came to me in a dream last night, seriously.
> Interesting that the e-stock idea came up again today, it's kind
> of similar.
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> How about a "stock market" for memes? Basically, "buying and
> selling stock" in memes, "price" is whatever the market sets,
> drivers are perception of the trend direction and magnitude of
> the meme. Pretty sure there's no commercial app
> here, though it'd be interesting to try and find correlates
> between meme prices and actual market behavior. More just a fun
> thing than anything else, but could be interesting. Certainly
> more evocative than, say, a game of Nomic. (Unless
> you're a lawyer or a politician, I suppose.)
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> :-? :-)
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> jb
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