![]() ![]() “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” – R. We are now realizing that this forceful fit of old design on top of new technology has widespread social and public health repercussions. Legacy-thinking and centralized industrial design have migrated from the analog onto new digital platforms. However things aren’t currently looking too good. This is of paramount importance as we travel further into the digital age where tomorrow’s marketplace, commerce and financial integration within the engagement design of gaming and social media de-materialize analog commerce and develop enormous global digital economies. Hence, both the “hardness” of money and actual “engagement design” have everything to do with our quality of life, and provide the trajectory to our progress and development. Both the “hardness” and durability of the currency, as well as any intermediation or brokerage of the engagement, deeply affect the quality of our engagement with one another. We meet new people, negotiate prices and terms of a deal, and in short, create and build from the engagement. From early hominids bartering around the campfire or the haggling in ancient village open-air markets, to online e-commerce, banking and finance, we dream and visualize what we might generate and then engage in exchange to make it happen. Over the eons of time, the intersection between the marketplace and human engagement has been where humans love to play and explore the possible. The internet was fundamentally designed to connect machines, not people. ![]() “The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.” – Hal Finney ![]()
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