[Torg] A peek under the hood of the Kanawa money-making machine

[Garrett Taylor]

Wandering by BoingBoing < http://www.boingboing.net/>, I was pointed to
this little nugget:

"Supercomputers pitted against one another in a high-stakes battle of
attack and counterattack over a global network where predatory algorithms
trawl the information stream, competing every millisecond to gain an
informational advantage over rivals. It sounds like Hollywood fiction, but
it's just an average trading day on the stock market. [...]"

<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/-it-sounds-like-something.ars>

The article goes on about computer technology, processing algorithms, and
data gathering and how they play a major role in how the modern Financial
Sector generates profits.

Through the Torg lens, the article hints of the fiscal manipulations Nippon
Tech could unleash on a less economically developed cosm.  And the closer
the invaded cosm is to it's own axioms ( like Core Earth ), the more
massive the damage. That's not to say Kanawa's advance agents didn't work
Wall Street like a rented mule before Kaah dropped Jurassic Park onto the
Eastern US. However, had there been a New York Stock Exchange by the time
Kanawa was ready to ramp up operations, there really not much the CE
traders could do except sit back and watch. I imagine Kanawa would nearly
control the un-invaded Asian markets by Month 3.

Also, the lead picture strikes me as gospog in RKD armor arriving to
'encourage' profitability at an underperforming Kanawa subsidiary.
-- 
-Garrett Taylor
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, FL USA
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