• discontinuuity [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I just finished reading Permanence by Karl Schroeder . Part of the story is about a conflict between different factions of human space colonies, one of which is called the Rights Economy. They attach nanoscale RFID chips to everything to denote who owns the copyright/patent on every object, and charge everyone microtransactions to do basic things like walk down a street or open a door.