Back in 2002 (have I really been blogging that long?) I blogged about Where's George?, a site where users track the movement of paper currency. (Follow-up: the bill I put in that day hasn't been found since; also, Duplex is one of the worst movies ever made.)
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute are using the data from Where's George to predict how disease spreads. Basically they are using currency as a proxy for how people travel. See also article in Science Blog and /., which notes that the folks at the Iowa Electronic Market are using prediction markets to forecast the spread of influenza.
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