2008-08-31
post/48136411
quote 11:22:00
“ You see this printed dollar bill? It’s far more real than topsoil or oxygen or the ozone layer or sunlight. ”
Scarily, for a lot of people, that’s probably true, even though it’s money that’s the consensual hallucination and oxygen is real (albeit invisible). Bruce Sterling, in a great talk to librarians that, as Nat Torkington said, reads as if it’s from far more recently than 1992.
