<b><i>"Any idea how such digital currency could look like?"</i></b><div><br></div><div>yes, my answer to this :</div><div>contextualizations as currencies. ( including past, present, and suggested futures )</div>
<div><br></div><div>in effect, creating a resource allocation and emergent governance system combined with choices as for engagements into intentional economic networks ( that is, graphs with past, present, and suggested inter-dependencies ).</div>
<div><br></div><div>A currency is a "medium of exchange" ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency</a> )</div><div><br></div><div>Contextualizations can serve as mediums of exchange, when it enables participating agents ( artificial or biological forms of intelligence )</div>
<div><br></div><div>to choose where to engage their attention and resources, or where to receive attention or resources to resolve current or projected needs.</div><div><br></div><div>It can also do so for systemic needs that can become more apparent as data and metadata start building up in such emergent graphs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I wish to use REA ontology as a starting point to deconstruct current transactions and social contracts ( with a variety of metadata )</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources,_events,_agents_(accounting_model)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources,_events,_agents_(accounting_model)</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>One can for example deconstruct and visualize what we currently call money ( fiat IOU's issued with interest by a centralized corporate banking network ), and compare it with a variety of other contracts. ( which in effect become social contracts when they become more generally accepted / legitimized )</div>
<div><br></div><div>I wish to use Netention as a way of contextualizing such deconstructed data and metadata, accross all types of contracts, and to visualize the re-use for non-linear transactions of such metadata creation ( I see credit as metadata used in non linear transactions )</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/automenta/netentionjs2">https://github.com/automenta/netentionjs2</a></div><div><br></div><div>I personally believe that increased transparency regarding such interdependencies, and the reputation effects it has in relation to active agents, becomes the new currency.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Fabio Barone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holon.earth@gmail.com" target="_blank">holon.earth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Great article Vasilis,<div><br></div><div>resumes in very concise manner what I have tried to express so many times.</div><div>Now, I am thinking 5 years how about alternative currencies.</div><div>I am also a software developer, and I believe that we should be able</div>
<div>to use crypto-currencies for:</div><div><br></div><div>"... Commons-oriented currency designed to serve effectively social purposes"</div><div><br></div><div>So the question really is, how to design such a currency that:</div>
<div>"Therefore, we, as commoners, conclude that what we need is a digital currency premised on a different political economy, one breaking the shackles of capitalist opportunism and ushering in a new era of economical transaction based on the finer aspects of the human spirit."</div>
<div><br></div><div>I completely agree, and the answer is not technological, but one of design.</div><div>Any idea how such digital currency could look like?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/7/13 olivier auber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olivierauber2@gmail.com" target="_blank">olivierauber2@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Well done Vasilis! I mentionned your article in a comment on KurzweilAI.<br>
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<a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/jobocalypse-the-end-of-human-jobs-and-how-robots-will-replace-them" target="_blank">http://www.kurzweilai.net/jobocalypse-the-end-of-human-jobs-and-how-robots-will-replace-them</a><br>
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hope that Kurweil & Co will not uderstand that we need a Google money ;-)<br>
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Vasilis Kostakis <<a href="mailto:kostakis.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">kostakis.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> fyi:<br>
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