Wired interviews Neal Stephenson about The Confusion, his new novel. Short, but some nice notes about information flows, money, and an early global economy.
There's a wiki site, too.
...money is a sort of medium for the exchange of information. When the price of cloth went up in Antwerp, it was because the system of international trade, in some fashion that's too complex for us to understand, was transmitting information about the supply/demand balance. Money makes that kind of information flow better.
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