The Wealth of Nations…
I had this idea the other night inspired by fantasy sport leagues. The idea is to setup an computer simulation for competing economic models. The grunt work would lay in the creation of a realistic framework. Most simulated economic systems only allow for cause and effect within any one system of economics, with little room to work on the perspective of the proposed economic system/ventures. Never mind a way to implementation/introduction or your own “experimental economy” via curved introduction. Obviously setting up a cause and effect system is required, but establishing it with real-world, real-time stats and historical data could creating something rather interesting.
Additionally, identifying and simulating extenuating circumstances and anticipated outcomes based off those same historical stats could lead to a truly killer-app. If the effort to shift towards transparent accounting is successful in our century, it would make this “simulator” one great stride closer to a reality. It might just be a good way to exhaust those processing cycles for one of those government super computers that “simulate war games” and “calculate future weather.”
–Maitz suggests I could save a whole lot of time and effort just becoming Sid Meyers’ bitch.
