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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Michael S. Mahoney" <MIKE@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: economics of free software
In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:04:23 -0500 from
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Lest you think the idea of a post-monetary economy new, take a look at the web page (http://www.technocracy.org/index.html) for Technocracy, Inc., a short-lived movement of the early 1930s that proposed to replace money with energy credits. Far from being unthinkable, the notion of abolishing money seems to be characteristic of technological utopianism, whatever the technology current at the time.
Mike Mahoney
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:04:23 -0500 G. L. Sicherman said:
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>I detect in electronic culture an emerging suspicion that money may be obsolescent--a surmise that out-mcluhans McLuhan. We devote so much attention to transferring, counting, and manipulating money that it may already be more efficient to abolish the monetary economy outright. But the concept of a post-monetary economy is so alien to modern economics (not to mention our way of life) that few people can even consider it. Most hear only a vain lament in Wordsworth's lines:
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>The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers....
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o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o= Michael S. Mahoney Department of History Princeton University
mike@princeton.edu 303 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ 08544
phone 609-258-4157 fax 609-258-5326
WWW Home Page http://www.princeton.edu/~mike o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Michael S. Mahoney" <MIKE@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: economics of free software
In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:04:23 -0500 from
<gls@ATPSOL.CVU.LUCENT.COM>
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Lest you think the idea of a post-monetary economy new, take a look at the web page (http://www.technocracy.org/index.html) for Technocracy, Inc., a short-lived movement of the early 1930s that proposed to replace money with energy credits. Far from being unthinkable, the notion of abolishing money seems to be characteristic of technological utopianism, whatever the technology current at the time.
Mike Mahoney
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:04:23 -0500 G. L. Sicherman said:
><portion omitted>
>I detect in electronic culture an emerging suspicion that money may be obsolescent--a surmise that out-mcluhans McLuhan. We devote so much attention to transferring, counting, and manipulating money that it may already be more efficient to abolish the monetary economy outright. But the concept of a post-monetary economy is so alien to modern economics (not to mention our way of life) that few people can even consider it. Most hear only a vain lament in Wordsworth's lines:
>
>The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers....
>
o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o= Michael S. Mahoney Department of History Princeton University
mike@princeton.edu 303 Dickinson Hall Princeton, NJ 08544
phone 609-258-4157 fax 609-258-5326
WWW Home Page http://www.princeton.edu/~mike o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=
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