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

For instance, breakthroughs in nano-technology processes which
enable objects to be built atom-by-atom promise to make obsolete the
very idea that direct human labour is a necessary ingredient in
production processes (see sidebar).
Our next leading socio-political problem
As several futurists predicted a couple of decades ago, accelerating
technology is finally catching up with us. Therefore jobs promise to
become one of the hottest international political issues. In a global
market system, no country or area can really opt out of world
'progress', without running the risk of also gliding into a downward
spiral of underdevelopment. On the other hand, we have not
developed institutions or mechanisms to deal with the social
dislocations that our new technologies lead us to.
'Here we stand, confronted by insurmountable opportunities!'
Neither left, nor right, but forward?
The traditional left-right debate is itself an inheritance of the
Industrial Age economic framework. The origin of that debate had to
do with private or public ownership of the 'means of production', i.e.
the factories and machines. As the means of production are becoming
knowledge, the new political and economic vocabulary to deal with
these new realities doesn't yet exist.
But how about changing the monetary framework itself? To
understand this, let's first play a very simple game called the
'Sufficiency of Money Game'.
The Sufficiency of Money Game