I was watching a History Channel documentary on The Brain just now. Toward the end it mentioned a new technology being developed, which enables a human to spot objects in photographs many times faster than normal. It’s being developed by DARPA, so the announcer said, “But the applications could go far beyond defense and intelligence.”

Yeah, you know, like spotting trends in the stock market. Yep, that was it. Spotting trends in the stock market. Isn’t that something to look forward to? Wall Street will now be able to engage in zero sum game speculation go broke and ask for bailouts a thousand times faster than ever before.

That’s something we need.