corporate evolution

EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish satellite system, has had talks about selling itself to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp or John Malone’s Liberty Media Corporation, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Tuesday), citing industry officials familiar with the contacts. I love the way this is phrased. EchoStar thought about selling itself. I realize that in legal terms the company is a separate entity but I’d never seen it phrased so bluntly.

I wonder if anyone is working on intelligent agents that will handle a company’s mergers and acquisitions? Corporations don’t really seem to need humans if they really work as robotically as economics says they do. This seems like a great application for genetic algorithms. It’s so obvious that companies must already be using them as a guide, maybe in ten years they’ll cede real power to the GA. Listening: I Felt Your Shape-Microphones-The Glow, Pt. 2