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    Trial #3: What will you do when space is as cheap and accessible as the Web is today?
  • CSat operating interface is marketed as a toy, like Tamagochi. Recharge, collect interesting data, avoid mean csats, team with friends
  • Organizations might post cash prize/rewards for things like locating missing ships, oil/trash dumping at sea, smokestack emissions, etc
  • Commodity traders are early adopters of CSat operator networks. Looking for crop yield data, mine production volumes, freight shipments etc
FOLLOW-UP CARDS
  • Would also be good to get an early heads up on crop failures or low yields in emerging mkts before civil unrest/war breaks out.
    by hjl
  • Similarly, you'd get a decent idea of iron ore production by watching BHP's railway in Australia, and the demand side in China, Korea etc
    by hjl
  • Among other things, CSat observations could give a more accurate estimate of "floating" oil parked in tankers as well as ongoing demand
    by hjl
  • Leads to turf wars among poppy and marijuana growers who now know where each other's fields are.
    by hjl
  • A lot of this kind of data already exists, it's just unevenly distributed. Information advantage and all that.
    by hjl
  • Sadly, credit derivative risk is not observable via CSat.
    by hjl
  • CyberCommodityWar traders spoof legitimate trading and intentionally raise prices of commodities they do not have. Cyberwarfare reigns
    by mikehatora
    HAS FOLLOW-UP CARDS!
  • Emerging economies tend to be heavily resource/commodity driven. So better data should help them.
    by hjl
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