Technology Review Readers Predict Tech's Fate with `Innovation Futures'.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003 Will Google go public? Will Boeing's Board of Directors decide to go forward with the 7E7? When will there be a commercially available consumer electronic device using ultrawideband technology? The answers to each of these questions, when final, will likely have a great effect on businesses and financial markets worldwide. Until the decisions are made, however, stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. simply have to wait and hope for the best. Or do they? Not if they place high credibility on the visions and predictions of some of the world's most talented financiers, researchers and executives in the industry, many whom are casting their educated votes with "Technology Review Innovation Futures" (TRIF TRIF Technology and Research Initiative Fund TRIF Tiled Raster Interchange Format TRIF Transaction Routing Index File TRIF Trilinear Filtering TRIF The Rasmus International Forum ), a pioneering predictive market system focused on events related to emerging technologies. TRIF, available from Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation, at www.technologyreview.com, is a dynamic predictive market that lets readers speculate and make real-time trades with virtual money on events related to business and technology. In many cases, predictive markets, also known as futures markets futures market, a commodity exchange where contracts for the future delivery of grain, livestock, and precious metals are bought and sold. Speculation in futures serves to protect both the developers and the users of the commodities from unfavorable and unpredictable , are astonishingly a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. more accurate than other common forms of predictions such as polling, surveys and expert opinions. "Our readers, many of whom are venture capitalists Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. , researchers, and technology executives, have a unique perspective on emerging technology trends," said Matt Mattox Matt Mattox (b. August 18, 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a jazz and ballet dancer. Mattox was a protegé of the legendary jazz dance pioneer Jack Cole, with whom he worked on Broadway in Magdalena (1948). , director of business development for Technology Review. "TRIF synthesizes the opinions of this knowledgeable group and produces very interesting insights into the likelihood of future events." Players earn points by correctly identifying the outcome of future events. These points get banked in an account and players with the highest point values are awarded prizes. As users become better at correlating today's news with future outcomes, the markets become more competitive. About Technology Review Inc. Technology Review Inc., an MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise, delivers essential information about emerging technologies on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of commercialization. Since 1998, paid circulation for the company's magazine, Technology Review, has more than tripled, climbing from 92,000 to 315,000. Combined with its signature events, newsletters, and online businesses, Technology Review reaches over a million senior technology thinkers and influencers - including venture capitalists, chief scientists, MIT alumni and students, researchers, senior corporate executives, investors, and innovators - throughout the world each month. |
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