Transactional Process Brokeraging of Virtual Commodity Assets An Emergent Economic Ecology

摘要

Computational process nodes, interconnected as dynamic elements of process brokeraging functionality matrices, are becoming an integral part of a commodity asset delivery system which will, in essence, redefine indices of valuation, based on non-tangible, virtual assets, for which there has been no previous comparison in existing economic systems. Many of the processes and technologies which are about to become the core elements of a new form of "virtual asset commodity economic system" are already becoming manifest, and thusly applied. An operational ecology is forming, indeed "evolving", consisting of an ever expanding arena of millions of processing and computational resource nodes, interconnected and operationally interdependent. The nodes themselves are functionally soft, as reconfigurable elements, which in this context, are bi-directional transceivers of "GelWare" encapsulated as functional identity and process templates within ubiquitously available, hierarchically interrelatable intelligent objects. The advent of massively parallel, distributed processing systems, particularly as in the modality of an N-dimensional network of processing nodes (both real and virtual), referred to by some as "the fabric" (Eric and Linda VonSchweber, 1998, Computing's Next Wave) will become the operational ecology of the economic engines of the near future. It is within this evolving socio-economic arena, where the primary elements of commoditized "virtual assets", and the integrated value chains of "process deliverables", become the primary economic drivers. In this context, indices of valuation are based not as much on the distribution of hard assets, such as materials and manufactured goods, as is common with most current economic systems, but rather are based on distribution of processes to which access is granted.