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

The Time-Compacting Machine of Chapter 1 made obvious that the
transition from the Industrial Age to the information Age will be one
of rapid change entailing a whole range of adjustment problems for
everybody in society. The core idea of Part Two is simple: the
possibilities offered by money innovations to tackle some of the key problems
in this transition are extensive, and have remained so far mostly untapped.
This does not mean that we should expect the national currencies to
disappear, replaced with another kind of money. Instead, what is
already happening is that other parallel currency systems are
developing to complement the existing system, to fulfil roles that the
national currencies do not, cannot, and were never designed to play.
CHAPTER 6
Work-Enabling Currencies
· Changes occur when there is a confluence of both changing values end
economic necessity, not before.' - John Naisbitt
The lack of money is the source of all evil.' - Bernard Shaw
'Life and livelihood ought not to be separated but to flow from the same
source, which is spirit. Spirit means life, and both life and livelihood are,
about living in depth, living with a meaning, purpose, joy, end a sense of
contributing to the greater community.' - Matthew Fox
'People who say it cannot be done
Should not interrupt those who are doing it.' - Jack Canfield
The 'money question' of our Time-Compacting Machine that is
being addressed here is 'how can we provide work to billions in an
era of jobless growth?' (Chapter 1).