This isn't quite as mind-blowing as Bitcoin but it was a nice reminder of that "this is an entirely new and plausibly valid economic paradigm" feeling. I will be interested to see what other thinkers have to say about his various concepts including hackstability, autopoesis, and technical debt. And this is a stark reminder of why things that have been decided over the last 5 years about Bitcoin will likely be having unintended effects a hundred years hence.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/04/18/hacking-the-non-disposable-planet/