In a message dated 11/14/02 4:06:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "It seems like the cigarette is everything a good solid currency needs to be...."
Except that you can't smoke your cigarettes and have them, too. A researcher with alot of smokes could probably come up with some interesting monetary theory experiments. -jsh >> This reminds me that science fiction author James Blish, who novelized the original Star Trek series, wrote a mammoth work called Cities in Flight in which someone developed and anti-gravity technology that allowed whole cities to migrate around the cosmos. Someone else developed a longevity drug which allowed the people in the migratory cities--or at least some of the people in the cities--to live indefinitely. For some period of time--the book covers centuries as I recall--the cities used the drug as money, but the problem of not being able to take the drug and have it too came home to roost and their monetary system collapsed. DBL
