[kevinlu310]

If we have such a system, everybody can input his/her intentions. I would input my intentions of attending startup events, and set the expiration date of this intention to for example 10 years. Then whenever there is an event like TechCrunch Disrupt, I will receive a notice with a short list of such events. All users who have set up similar intentions will receive such notice. Meanwhile, TechCrunch Disrupt organizers will receive a list of all users who have such similar intentions. As a result, they can directly send mails, or emails, or even phone calls to these users for highly targeted marketing instead of blindly broadcast their event to the whole general public.

[alain94040]

Your system doesn't sound realistic. Here's a version that works today: once several of your friends sign up for TechCrunch Disrupt, then I'll start showing you ads for the conference. No need to pre-enter any kind of vague intent into some omniscient system.

[kevinlu310]

My system will be very realistic in 5 years. You're still talking about socialized and context-awared ads. It is actually based on very old Attention Economy, which is dominant probably in the past thousand years just because there is no Internet. Now with the help of the Internet, Intention Economy is coming to dominate, because it will optimize the world very much.