The new economy of computation. post 
by Jeff Sidell
The term agoric systems was first used in 1988 by Mark Miller and Eric Drexler in a paper they co-authored. Miller then went on to cofound Agorics Inc. (www.webcom.com/agorics/) in Los Altos, California.
The Agorics solution allows applications to compete for available bandwidth.
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A Wired article about Ted Nelson's Xanadu Project.