(sorry for double-posting)

The overhangs are still a little extreme for a TOM, but I’ll keep trying.

Well, if you make it really huge and show it at a distance then the inter-ocular limitations reduce the accuracy of stereo-optic correction.

But, it would be another print challenge anyway

But it may not be nearly as radical as it seems at first. The most salient fact I learned in the one Econ course I took in college is that cash — stuff you can hold in your hand like coins and paper currency — is a surprisingly small fraction of all money in the economy. The actual fraction depends on whether you’re looking at M1, M2 or M3 as described in my economics textbook (Economics by Paul Samuelson, 11th edition). In other words, most money is nothing more than bits and bytes on computers, not yours or mine, but those belonging to governments and banks.

The problem with money in a digital age is that it’s far too easy for really smart people to game the system, generating virtual fortunes without engaging in any productive activity. That kind of gaming in the guise of so-called credit default swaps is widely considered to have caused the crisis of 2008.

Conceptualizing a post-monetary economy is not difficult. Cybernetic systems and telecommunications networks are sufficiently advanced that using them to organize productive human activity is a straightforward thought experiment.

The real problem of course is effecting the transition to such an economy. Winners in the present system will doubtless be reluctant to relinquish the power and privilege they presently enjoy.