[OT] Re: [PD] PD convention book on amazon.de

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:

> You must be just baiting Yves, because I seriously cannot beleive that
> you can't imagine a society without a monetary currency. You should
> read the Iain M Banks book "The Algebraist" where the only economy that
> truly advanced societies deal in is the currency of 'kudos'. I find this
> notion very convincing and sincerely hope that it's the future of our own
> society. Think forwards to a time when technology has eliminated scarcity.
> 
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudos

Another good and fun read in this regard in Charles Stross'
"Accelerando", see www.accelerando.org 

Ciao
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