Smart Computing Applications in Crowdfunding

CHAPTER 11

Outlook of Crowdfunding

This chapter looks into the future of crowdfunding. Firstly, a metaphor from a famous science fiction novel is described; secondly, the implications of such metaphor for the prospect of crowdfunding are discussed. The details of N-body problem’s mathematical formulation are certainly out of the scope of this chapter. But finding an inertial frame reference in space becomes problematic because it has to be non-accelerated or non-rotated. Ideally, an inertial frame (built on three mutually perpendicular vectors found in space) should be based on the so-called ‘fixed stars’, but unfortunately identifying such thing becomes an impossible mission since the stars are believed to all be moving with respect to one ...