Anders Lindman
13-02-2007, 03:04 AM
I wrote in another thread that the banking system is like a global reptile brain. A better analogy would be that the banking system is like a global reptile heart; it pumps out fiat money, and sucks up money in the form of interest. Just like blood provides nutrition to individual cells within a biological organism, money that is being pumped around by the banking system provides nutrition for the people in the world. In a biological organism, the cardiovascular system is highly efficient and in a healthy organism, all cells have all the nutrition they need. The banking system is as yet not as smooth and efficient as a biological heart, but hopefully it will be used with more efficiency in the future.
If the banking system is the equivalent of a global heart, what then is the global brain? The global brain is the Internet. A heart pumps around nutrition and messages of a heavy nature, while a brain deals with information of a more complex and volatile nature.
The global heart (the banking system) is very old, and the global brain (Internet) is very young. This probably means that the banking system is fairly stable and does not need to change much, but the brain needs to mature very fast, and we can see that Internet is doing just that. More advanced things like YouTube and Yahoo! Answers are very recent phenomena and we should expect even more advanced things on the Internet in the future.
If the banking system is the equivalent of a global heart, what then is the global brain? The global brain is the Internet. A heart pumps around nutrition and messages of a heavy nature, while a brain deals with information of a more complex and volatile nature.
The global heart (the banking system) is very old, and the global brain (Internet) is very young. This probably means that the banking system is fairly stable and does not need to change much, but the brain needs to mature very fast, and we can see that Internet is doing just that. More advanced things like YouTube and Yahoo! Answers are very recent phenomena and we should expect even more advanced things on the Internet in the future.