> That is why, FIRST, predictive or not, someone (probably in the social sciences) needs to come up with the idea(s) about how it _might_ be paid for, that don'

> That is why, FIRST, predictive or not, someone (probably in the social sciences) needs to come up with the idea(s) about how it _might_ be paid for, that don't include advertising. I think when it comes to this kinds of money involved, it no longer the domain of social sciences but politics. Some ppl call politics social science but there's no science in it, it's more the inevitable dystopic future than anything else. As someone said on one of the conferences with audience of open source technologists: you can ignore politics as much as you like but the politics will not ignore you.