Author's Notes
Please don’t ask me where Dash is. I don’t know. At this point, you know her almost as well as I do. You tell me.
Once again, how real is this stuff, anyway?
The lightning laced into an overhead spiderweb bowl in DC is real. I saw it myself one Fourth of July on the Mall in front of the Washington Memorial. The rain that followed was real too.
Vladimir Putin claims the apocalypse torpedo is real. It certainly could be. It probably is not powerful enough to bring on another Year without Summer. Probably.
The application of prediction markets to government, as Fan starts to do in the villages of China, is a real proposal. Such a government would be called a futarchy.
The proposal to replace government with a network of smart contracts is, I believe, new, but it is a mino
