Re: Artificial Reality

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 11:20:30 MDT


On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Miriam English wrote:

> In fact I have a feeling also that mega-wealth's high rank is weakening.

Really?

> There is this scent in the breeze of late... Do you hear it whispered from

<sniff> <sniff> Hmm. I smell stale office carpet, and cold coffee.

> time to time?... what the world could be if money went back to being just
> trading tokens...

Money *is* trading tokens. Unable to meet our demands for cauri shells, we
just make artifishl ones. A token can be many things, including a
well-formed binary string.

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a>
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