The future of money // #futureofmoney

Posted on | November 29, 2010 | No Comments

The emerging awareness that the way we today assess value – that is, through monetization – is becoming increasingly problematic is something that is incredibly interesting, I think. The below video (written by Gabriel Shalom, Venessa Miemis and Jay Cousins), uploaded to vimeo by Berlin studio KS12 and posted with a nice article on sharable.net by Neil Gorenflo, highlights very well some of the ideas behind the out-of-the-cash-box thinking that is starting to permeate into mainstream awareness. How can we create new systems of wealth generation and abundance?

This reminds me of a concrete initiative that I came across in Gothenburg a couple of weeks ago at the FSCONS-conference; dyndy.net -“an effort at building a Pattern Language for Alternative and Complementary Money Systems to inform and empower grassroots communities with concepts and tools to overcome scarcity, instruments and reflections for the Exodus from proprietary money.” Behind it stands a collective of “researchers and practitioners in the fields of philosophy of economics and technology, activists and hackers, developers and visionaries“.

I am looking very much forward to follow this initiative. Read more about it that the official Dyndy website or collect inspiration from the groups Youtube-channel.

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