• davel@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I expect though that the future will see private currencies backed by the-entities-formerly-known-as-corporations.

    Snow Crash becomes truer by the year.

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      Yes.

      And specifically one of the things that impressed me about Snow Crash’s predictions was the idea that federal governments didn’t get overthrown or cease to exist - they were simply irrelevant. The “corporations” had amassed enough wealth and power that they could, and did, simply ignore the governments.