The company FloatingConcepts has been selected by economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise, as the preferred bidder to take the project forward.
Absent a common currency in the form of the dollar, the U.S. would still be a rich country, but far less vibrant for all the wasted effort necessary to facilitate interstate trade given 50 different floating money concepts.
Heretofore, design concepts for free-floating space colonies, says Sherwood, have entailed large hollow toroidal spheres with clouds, yards and pastures.