Plugimi (Sascha Pohflepp)

In connection to the posting on money I spend some time thinking about object that would tap into the flow of money within Google AdSense, ultimately ending up with an artifact that could make (grow?) money for you. I believe that this would be especially interesting because you then could give people that have no access to these abstract means of generating value (e.g. having a website or blog) or are even illiterate the means to access it and even make a living using paradigms that are coming from a completely different background.
Imagine an artificial plant that would generate clicks (money) on it’s own AdSense-equipped website whenever its solar cells are being exposed to the sun, thus combining the most basic with one of the most sophisticated ways of generating value.

Anyway, at Transmediale I learned about Google Will Eat Itself which is nominated for the award and besides Markus’ piece my clear favorite. It stays a bit more in the virtual realm but basically it does the very same thing: it generates clicks through some secret network, and Google transfers them the money but then they go and buy Google stocks with it which the clickers (the secret network?) get back in a process called GTTP (!). Very nice.