Quoting Diana Smith <[log in to unmask]>: > > Micheal, interesting that you brought up '....aspect of the technology of > money and it's heighten modality.' I was thinking about that myself the other > day, I recently read some of Alvin Toffler's book, 'Power shift' and it makes > ya wonder if there are going to be new rules about gold standards with > electronic money that nullifies allot of traditional economic theory about > gold, or if it's going to be another John Law fiasco. I don't really > understand enough to speculate, though. Back to wealth of nations! Rather than Toffler who mainly knocked off McLuhan (and poorly )see William Irwin Thompson who sees economics as a shadow form of ecology and the strivings for a healthy cultural-ecology being played in a political arena stuggling to internalize old ecologies. And I return to my comment can money lose it's heigtened aspects in the nacent world information society. In a service ecolgy don't the differences of rich and poor merge? -- michael edmunds