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: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Steele's Cryptocurrency Evaporates

After the interview was over, I tell him my editor wants to fouls right away and I ask him if he can borrow a computer to transmit them. Steele's secretary takes me to the reception area and hands me a silver laptop. All I have to do is hit enter and trillions of dollars worth of Steele's cryptocurrency will evaporate - just like all the lakes and glaciers and species for the last 100 years. If I hit enter, Sky Cove gets around him. His coal factories in Russia go silent. Financial institutions would teeter, maybe collapse. He says, we can talk about this calmly. Can't we? So I relax and I calmly ask him a few more questions. Still

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