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The sat company, SkyBox, Google purchased mentions using sat images for predictive analytics that can be applied to investment decisions. http://www.skyboximag

• TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
  Following the logic in the article, you'd get the most efficient markets by making all financial transactions public and instantly accessible. Then everyone would have the maximum possible amount of information, which would lead to maximally efficient pricing. For some reason I can't quite put my finger on, I don't expect this to happen any time soon. Which is one reason I remain skeptical that 'efficient pricing' has ever been a genuine goal.
  • olefoo 12y ago
    On the other hand "making all financial transactions public and instantly accessible" is one of the best arguments I've heard for pushing people towards bitcoin/blockchain style accounting systems. It would do all sorts of weird things to the theory of the firm forcing internal transactions to maintain information asymmetry.
• foobarqux 12y ago
  I don't follow the analogy. No one is voluntarily sharing private data with SkyBox that they don't want used in a way that SkyBox uses it.