What if, instead of a gold standard, a silver standard, a real estate standard, or fiat, the standard used as the basis for an economy was information? Each culture would be engaged in a race with its neighbors to continue progress in whatever avenue of information it sought to mine.

What would a unit of information currency look like? What would it ( Read more... )

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I've had the hankering recently to run a sci-fi game. I'm not sure, I just have. I think it's all the EVE I've been playing that has me wanting to interact with a spacefaring environment on a personal level. So my scratch pad's cluttered with little bits of ideas that I might be able to use -- a "gold rush" on a resource that exists only on a world ( Read more... )