One possibility is for electronic money, on smartcards for spending money and in central databases for banks... with AIs programmed to be incorruptable in charge of the funds. (One AI on each smartcard, and groups of AIs in the central databases.) Although this leads to the questions "who programs the AIs?", "who makes sure they stay incorruptable?", and "isn't this slavery?".
Another possibility is to go back to a precious metal standard - no paper money or credit balances, just the pure metal. Assuming the existance of handwaved spectrum analysers that can determine what something is made of, it doesn't matter whether somebody tries to forge the money; he'd still need one credit worth of the precious metal to create a one-credit coin...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Another possibility is to go back to a precious metal standard - no paper money or credit balances, just the pure metal. Assuming the existance of handwaved spectrum analysers that can determine what something is made of, it doesn't matter whether somebody tries to forge the money; he'd still need one credit worth of the precious metal to create a one-credit coin...
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012