Forrest Bishop wrote:
> This is a solicted draft article for an audience of non-transhuman futurists.
> Comments wuold be appreciatd.
>
> =====================
> Scenario of 3000 C.E.-
>
> DECLINE AND FALL OF NATIONS
>
> The millennium started off with quite a bang, or rather, an implosion. The
> Last Bubble and its global fiat-currency collapse of 2000-2001 C.E. led
> into the two-decade Really Great Depression.
[numerous anti-fiat money references follow]
If your goal is to convince these futurists that fiat currency
is bad, I suppose your article is fine (though predicting a
"Really Great Depression", presumably meaning much worse than
the 1930's depression, _this year_ will give the impression
that you're a crackpot right off the bat).
If your goal is to introduce these futurists to transhumanism,
rewrite. All the fiat currency stuff will simply alienate the
uninitiated. It would probably be more interesting to speculate
on what might replace fiat currency than to rail against it
for 538 years (time of the "Bonehead" transmission :-).
Mike
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