for this "Well, what if we created a "thing", which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price?"

unreliable bookkeeping history; unprecedented bookkeeping future

"It is thus in traders' direct financial interest, they suggest, to install themselves at specific points on the Earth's surface—a kind of light-speed financial acupuncture—to take advantage both of the planet's geometry and of the networks along which trades are ordered and filled. They conclude that "the construction of relativistic statistical arbitrage trading nodes across the Earth’s surface" is thus economically justified, if not required." wild premise, wonder what the reality factor here is

patterns in data

wall street firms using sattelites for parking lot data (via kevin slavin) :
With a satellite picture, “you don't have to guess based on what a manager is saying from a store or the opinion of a research analyst,” said Tom Diamond, co-founder of Remote Sensing Metrics. “It's a real piece of data you can look at.”

good old Ricky Fulton confirms Warren Buffett's aptitude as a product of his being an Omahan (I agree)