Ultimately, in the future, Energy will serve as currency rather than state-issued fiat or P2P-chained forms. However, while energy will clearly function as currency, the roles of currency and capital within the concept of money can bifurcate. Beyond energy, Information emerges as a promising candidate for future currency. Specifically, energy as medium of exchange and information as store of value, enabling functional specialization. This entails the separation of unit of account/medium of exchange from store of value.
The fundamental principle of accumulation versus utilization constitutes a ubiquitous pattern in MDP-governed systems: currency accumulates into capital, energy accumulates into information, Hamiltonians evolve into Entropy, space is utilized while time is accumulated. Understanding the nutrients responsible for transitions in state-dependent systems reveals emergent cross-patterns. Transitions in the world are sparsely activated. Trends flow here and there within manageable bandwidth at any given moment.

Seonglae Cho