<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/94caf8e3-fd25-4c54-be21-96eaea8563f2/92DA0591-38BA-4DF8-9705-22791A9F61B9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/06/17/singularity-economics-and-the-future-of-money/" href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/06/17/singularity-economics-and-the-future-of-money/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.depressedmetabolism.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/06/17/singularity-economics-and-the-future-of-money/"><P><A href="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/gold.jpg" linkindex="50" set="yes"><IMG width="300" height="147" alt="" src="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/gold-300x147.jpg" title="gold" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-162" /></A>On his website, <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson" linkindex="51">Robin Hanson</A> discusses an unfilled niche in economics which he calls the “economics of science fiction” or “economics of future technology.” Another modern phrase would be “Singularity economics.” Hanson describes the economics of science fiction as the:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/06/17/singularity-economics-and-the-future-of-money/"><P>“economic analysis of the sorts of assumptions typically explored in science fiction. It is distinguished from the typical hard science fiction analysis by using the tools of professional economics, rather than the intuitive social scientist of the typical engineer. And it is distinguished from most economics by taking seriously the idea that we can now envision the outlines of new technologies which may have dramatic impacts on our society.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/06/17/singularity-economics-and-the-future-of-money/"><P>One interesting question is how future advances in science and human nature will impact the monetary system. Two developments that may have a substantial impact on the future of money are <A target="_blank" href="http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/" linkindex="52">molecular nanotechnology</A> and the stability of governments.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/92DA0591-38BA-4DF8-9705-22791A9F61B9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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