# Paid

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- Book: [Paid](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling/paid) ([Paid.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling/paid.md))
- Authors: [Bruce Sterling](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling), [Bill Maurer](https://www.bookquiver.com/bill-maurer), [Lana Swartz](https://www.bookquiver.com/lana-swartz)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6253-521-2
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2018-03-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string. Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones,...