> I think you may have missed the point...
>
> ...to me, the point is not to carry change at all.
>
> [...]->gold->gold coins->coins->gold-backed-paper->paper->?
My comment was not advocating coin currency. Cashless is good. It was a
lamentation over putting lots of technical and otherwise resources into
"solving" a problem that is not a problem in the first point. Well, maybe I
differ in my views on that: fundamentally I see technology as a tool for
problem solving. cMode, on the other hand, reeks of a tool for profit
making. And that's okay too, but we should be careful to keep the two
separate (often times they aren't). Either that or there is indeed a
problem cMode was designed to solve and I am too block headed to see it.
> There some interesting theories about the inherent value of
> communication and information eventually displacing simple
> posessions and property.
Quite possibly there are, but what is so special about cMode that makes it
qualify as an application of one of these theories of property-displacing
information? I'd be interested to hear more, but you still gotta have a
phone, an account, and a battery charger with an electrical source.
Moreover, it seems that a typical person in today's info-sated world is the
possessor of a lot, lot, more "simple" property than "before" (whenever that
was).
Cheers,
Christian
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Christian Molstrom
LightSurf KK
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Received on Mon Sep 10 04:35:39 2001