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The Social Media of Money
In the early nation state era, when me nation states begin to issue a state issued currency, that was happening at the same time as the emergence of the printing press. And so you know that these paper money is a form of paper media and tells a share in history om to a largely illiterate people. That ws them to imagine themselves as no member of that history, and also project that history into some kind of likshared future. So if we think about transactions as literally transactions moving across a rmoving value from one account to another, that is communication. As a person who studies the technologies of communication systems, i am interested in looking at the communication system money around and thinking