On 09/12/2010 07:14 PM, Ruth Catlow wrote: > > Now we just need to work out what we think we have to trade.
I'm reminded of Cory Doctorow's whuffie (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Whuffie), which models a reputation economy. If art's an attention economy, we could trade attention Possibly I'm just saying this as my reviews would make me an attention capitalist. ;-) > Part of me feels that the energy that it takes to separate out the > potential value of any action (in the kinds of things we all do and > value) for transaction will be more than that the energy it takes to > produce the value (like Maxwell's Daemon fighting entropy). I like that comparison. Neoliberalism (a la Marc's mention the other day) is daemon farming... - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
