Jaron Lanier, You are not a gadgetThere would be one standard formal representation of transactions, but also an open diversity of applications that make use of it. That means that financial designs would not have to follow preexisting contours and could be developed in a wide variety of ways, but could still be registered with regulators.
Jaron Lanier, You are not a gadgetThe ability to register complex, creative ideas in a standard form would transform the nature of finance and its regulation. It would become possible to create a confidential, anonymous-except-by-court-order method for regulators to track unusual transactions
Giorgio Agamben, ProfanaciónsPara quen perderon a posesión de si mesmos, o dandi, que fai da elegancia e o superfluo a súa raison d’etre, ensina a posibilidade dunha nova relación coas cousas, que vai alén do goce do seu valor de uso e a acumulación do seu valor de cambio. É o redentor das cousas, o que borra coa súa elegancia, o pecado orixinal: a mercadoría