What we call deflation, an earlier culture might have called, "God abandoning the world." Money is disappearing, and with it a third property of spirit, the animating force of the human realm. At this writing, all over the world machines stand idle. Factories have ground to a halt, construction equipment sits derelict in the yard. Yet all the human and material inputs to operate them still exist. There is still fuel, there are still raw materials, and there are still human beings in abundance who know how to operate the machines. It is rather something immaterial, that animating spirit, which has fled. What has fled is money. That is the only thing missing, so insubstantial (in the form of electrons in computers) that it can hardly be said to exist at all, yet so powerful that without it, human productivity grinds to a halt. It is as if God had forsaken the world. Even beyond the mechanical realm, we can see the demotivating effects of lack of money. Consider the stereotype of the unemployed man, nearly broke, slouched in front of the TV in his undershirt, drinking a beer, hardly able to rise from his chair. Money, it seems, animates people as well as machines. Without it we are dispirited.

The *net manifesto is being written

a complement to alternate currency methods, the phone will allow the exchange of currencies other than traditional scarce money

LMAO nice work, especially the comment about surgery at the bottom "that's a lot of tomatoes"

it's right after attention and trust on the list of dimensions of Value - incidentally these metacurrency project guys are looking at dimVals as being each represented by a currency, and then providing a currency exchange (which is transformation of value) a little different from the econ models i've been talking about but not much

watch the vid

money as a store of value replaced by productive assets as a store of value; interesting take on *net not being a for profit venture, in fact there is no profit, only exchange, with perhaps powernet taking demurage to sustain itself and account for 'rot'