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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Whuffie | ||
| A system in which one's actions, as perceived by others, directly procure the necessities of life; reputation-based currency. |
| Whuffie recaptured the true essence of money: in the old days, if you were broke but respected, you wouldn't starve; contrariwise, if you were rich and hated, no sum could buy you security and peace. By measuring the thing that money really represented — your personal capital with your friends and neighbors — you more accurately gauged your success |
| From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,
by Cory Doctorow. Published by Tor in 2003 Additional resources -
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This strikes me as a digital version of Jack Vance's analog strakh.
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