I've moved to the same town as Michael Linton, who has some great thoughts about Open Money, which he explained at Gnomedex a in August 2007.
As he says, it'll make your head hurt, but I think it'll make your head hurt less today than it would have done 18 months ago. A lot of us have seen more clearly recently that money is almost make-believe, a useful contract that we've all come to believe in as an empirical - almost atomic - solid irreplaceable building block of everything. When it ceases to become useful, loses its value, or is a thing that people can't obtain at all because they can't earn it, then it opens up a space for something else. If you want to see what kind of open and community-based alternatives to single universal currencies will be emerging in the wake of our financial system's implosion, watch Michael's Gnomedex lecture here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30gni_michael-linton_school On 10-Feb-09, at 11:36 AM, Kara Andrade wrote: There¹s lots on the topic of micropayments out there today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/opinion/10kinsley.html?_r=2&th&emc=th http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/impressions/2009/02/09/micro- economics?p age=full My take on this is that the more approaches we experiment with, including micropayments, the more likely we¹ll stumble upon a collective solution. There is no silver bullet anymore, nor was there every. -- KARA ANDRADE | ONLINE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER SPOT.US: www.spot.us 33 Pearl Street #12 | san francisco ca 94103 t: 510.384.0788 k...@spot.us Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer community-funded reporting and creating a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate. This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
