Open source the whole economic system! And i want a pony too.
Is transparent capitalism possible? To find out, we need a different model for understanding economics.
Legislation can be seen as a certain set of instructions with a very clear outlined syntax. Every individual is trying to get what they want, and they have to abide by this set of instructions (software) to become a part of an economic system. When the economic system crashes, so eventually does everybody's economic software. People have to fall back to various firmware boot cycles (to psychologists known as "imprinting phases").
If every individual had the ability to offer "patches" to their economic software (the set of laws they follow), and there were distributed authorities approving this new set of laws for that individual with a few basic guidelines (don't hurt anybody, don't steal anything, don't leave a mess), then wouldn't the system be much more resilient and stable?
Most people in the United States know absolutely nothing about the economic software they are running. That's because it's not open source. All we see is the graphical user interface. The money changes color and value, but it always has the same dead masons on it.
Could it not be residue from earlier moon missions? I sure hope so. Otherwise, we basically bombed the moon in 2009 only to find out in 2010 it's inhabited. Humans are the rednecks of the galaxy.
It's inevitable. Years from now when cheap community GSM towers are commonplace, this software project will be seen as a milestone in telecommunications. There are plenty of rural areas all over the world that could some day take advantage of this.
And by the way, when we've got ubiquitous cheap GSM, what would we need 802.11 for?
Great idea, awesome project! Someone give those guys money!
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Is transparent capitalism possible? To find out, we need a different model for understanding economics. Legislation can be seen as a certain set of instructions with a very clear outlined syntax. Every individual is trying to get what they want, and they have to abide by this set of instructions (software) to become a part of an economic system. When the economic system crashes, so eventually does everybody's economic software. People have to fall back to various firmware boot cycles (to psychologists known as "imprinting phases"). If every individual had the ability to offer "patches" to their economic software (the set of laws they follow), and there were distributed authorities approving this new set of laws for that individual with a few basic guidelines (don't hurt anybody, don't steal anything, don't leave a mess), then wouldn't the system be much more resilient and stable? Most people in the United States know absolutely nothing about the economic software they are running. That's because it's not open source. All we see is the graphical user interface. The money changes color and value, but it always has the same dead masons on it.
Could it not be residue from earlier moon missions? I sure hope so. Otherwise, we basically bombed the moon in 2009 only to find out in 2010 it's inhabited. Humans are the rednecks of the galaxy.
It's inevitable. Years from now when cheap community GSM towers are commonplace, this software project will be seen as a milestone in telecommunications. There are plenty of rural areas all over the world that could some day take advantage of this. And by the way, when we've got ubiquitous cheap GSM, what would we need 802.11 for? Great idea, awesome project! Someone give those guys money!