<nettime> The Swedish Ideology

[t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>]

	http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990921/od/yucca_1.html



Yucca Plant Branches Out Into Stock Market

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A yucca plant is the latest investor on the
Stockholm stock exchange, issuing buy and sell orders on the exchange's 16
most traded shares.

Swedish artist Ola Pehrson has attached electrodes to the plant's leaves
and, through a sensor, can feel the plant's growth with movements linked
to a computer program tracking the 16 most active stocks.

When the yucca's stock recommendations perform better than the bourse's
general index, it is given water and light.

If the plant fails to deliver profits, it stays dry and in the dark.

The yucca is part of an exhibition by seven Swedish artists in Stockholm. 


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