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The future of futurism: crowds or entrepreneurs?

Chris Masse has already linked to The Economist story on futurists, which ends with a plug for prediction markets: The most heeded futurists these days are not individuals, but prediction markets, where the informed guesswork of many is consolidated into … Continue reading

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Will Bush pardon Scooter Libby? + Prediction Markets Definitions

Reuters: [...] Democrats were immediately suspicious that he would, the White House was careful not to rule it out, and Intrade, an online prediction exchange on issues from politics to weather, opened a futures market on whether it would happen. … Continue reading

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