Thought Economics

[Odinn]

While its currently impossible to externally quantify thoughts I think it would be very cool to measure what people think, how often, and with what intensity - on a large scale, and then we could see how much people's thoughts create the reality around them. For example: if someone anonymously shares a message through the internet which angers many people who have no direct way of interacting with the author, how would their collective dislike of the author cause him/her to feel reluctant to share a similar message in the future.

Yesterday Gmail underwent a crash of about 15 miniiutes or so, but part of the users (probably hundred of thousands or millions, all around the world) quickly reacted in twitter talking/complainning about it.


I remember I thought something along that line you comment on - "If all these people would have reacted to this situation visualizing Gmail's team fixing the problem (instead of tweeting a "What hapenned?"), the service would have been down less than those 15 minutes".