Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: "Ron_Fischer.mvenvos"@xerox.com Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 89 02:09:09 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 14 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu I've lost the original posting, but in reply to previous message that began something like "...but what would you buy things with in a nanotechnology based society?" I think the answer is clearly still "money" but in a more abstract form than bearer bonds, coins or bills (I rather like coins and will miss them). Right now the value of money is determined by a set of complex interactions in the financial markets of the world. This valuation is already quite far from any relation of goods and services. One can almost always value some things against others. In a society with nanotech we're likely to put even more value on information. Consider the value of "insider info" today. I believe the original poster mentioned this but dropped the topic. (ron)