> The dematerialisation (to use Howard's word), or the virtualisation (s) to
> use mine, of money seems to me to have been a matter for a long time; it
> is now 0 and 1 in a database; so how printing paper, ink squeezed onto
> dead trees, can make much difference, rather than just unlocking a few
> million more mobile phones, is open to discussion, and we still can't all
> talk at once.
>
Money is not 0 and 1 in a database, it is much more. We have the
representamen of money in several appearances now. One of them being the
"ink onto dead trees". Although i think it is difficult to pay with dead
trees. But the 0 and 1 in a database is NOT money, it is representamen.
And just one of the many representamens for money. The internet does not
replace books, it only adds anotherness. But since some representamens are
only created in the internet lately and not by means of printed books
anymore, destruction of internet texts might mean destruction forever for
this specific representamens. If we have the perception we need texts to
pay and live up to that, it might mean big problem. IF there is already a
tight amount of it. In that case we will have to create either more books
or more internet texts again. I guess.
Kindest regards,
Wilfred Berendsen
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