Re:“I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”
by Zuggy on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:52PM
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That's what I got out of the episode, too. And when you look into it there is quite a bit of truth to it. At least in the US, the vast majority of our currency only exists in electronic formats.
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Re:“I can't stop comparing everything to Black Mirror”
by V-2 on Friday January 02, 2015 @11:44PM
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The works of Beethoven or greatest chess games of all times could only exist in electronic format as well, without affecting their value.
The fact that the value of something is abstracted away from actual physical entities doesn't (by itself) make it in any way inferior.
Quite the contrary - it's the ability to grasp the concept of virtual value, rather than only recognizing it in bananas etc. that makes us human.
(Sorry about the English, that's a tad too abstract for my working command of the language :/ )