FC: Free "Digital Economy Jargon Generator!"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Free to politech members, the Digital Economy Jargon Generator!

Here's the jargonizer I wrote in response to Tim's suggestion:
http://www.mccullagh.org/cgi-bin/jargonizer.cgi

If anyone wants the source (though I don't know why you would, it's 
something like five lines of code) just email me.

-Declan

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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:08:31 -0800
To: cypherpunks () algebra com
From: Tim May <tcmay () got net>
Subject: Digital Economy Jargon Generator

With all of the talk recently of recursively-settled agoric market spaces, 
multidimensional geodesic actor systems, and other jargon-heavy marketbuzz, 
I've made up a little table of recommended names.

Someone could make a little Perl or Python script to let the computers do 
all the work.

The idea is to take a couple of sexy terms from Columns 1 and 2 and apply 
them to a noun from Column 3. Care should be taken to use terms which evoke 
images from relativity, quantum mechanics, artificial life, and other 
trendy areas. Anything that triggers images from "Star Trek" is good.

Here it goes:


Column 1            Column 2          Column 3

Distributed         Fractal           Market

Geodesic            Coaseian          Ecosystem

Holographic         Geodesic          Space

Multiply-connected  Biometric         Ecology

Least Action        Parameterized     Continuum

Recursively-settled Holographic       Cyberspace

Fractal             Multidimensional  Bazaar

Bionomic            Distributed       Hyperspace

Agoric              Auction           Topology

Best of breed       Metric            Metaverse

Dark Fiber          Anarchic          Arena

Open-system         Quantized         Manifold

Anarcho-topological Hayekian          Actor system


Examples of usage:

"Digital Datawhack is premised on the principle of creating distributed 
biometric agoric arenas."

"The Von Mises Corporation is the dominant player in deploying 
recursively-settled holographic actor systems. It is our goal to make 
agoric, open-system market topologies the bionomic norm."

"Fractalbucks are the unit of currency in the Hayekworld bazaar-type open 
Coaseian system. We believe it to be best of breed in the dark fiber 
geodesic market space."

Glad to be of help.


--Tim May, Aptical Foddering Marketspace V.P. 




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