THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

ealistic possibilities for gradually correcting the excesses and
imbalances of the current system without revolutions or violence.
Even more important, these new complementary currencies,
operating in conjunction with the dominant national money system,
create new wealth, both financial and social. It is no coincidence that
these new currencies typically do not share any of the four obvious
characteristics of the national currencies described above. For
instance, they specifically do not involve interest.
It is worth remembering what John F. Kennedy remarked: 'Those
who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.'
CHAPTER 3
Cybersphere - The New Money Frontier
'Money has evolved from shells to green paper to artful arrangement of
binary digits.' - Dee Hock, Chairman VISA
'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but
in having new eyes.' -Marcel Proust
'Confusion is the word we invented to refer to an order we don't yet
understand.' - Henry Miller
In less than two decades, what Daniel Bell originally called the
Post- Industrial Society is now commonly referred to as the
Information, Knowledge or Communications Age. As information
becomes our critical resource, there are sweeping implications not
only for our economy, but also for the very fabric of our society.
We saw that our oldest information systems are money systems
(chapter 1) remember, even writing was initially invented to record