electronic, does not represent physical work so much as 
programmed knowledge. As work is replaced by the sheer 
movement of information, money as a store of work merges 
with the informational forms of credit and credit card. From 
coin to paper currency, and from currency to credit card there 
is a steady progression toward commercial exchange as the 
movement of information itself. This trend toward an inclusive 
information is the kind of image represented by the credit card, 
and approaches once more the character of tribal money. For 
tribal society, not knowing the specialisms of job or of work, 
does not specialize money either. Its money can be eaten, 
drunk, or worn like the new space ships that are now designed 
to be edible.

     “Work,” however, does not exist in a nonliterate world. 
The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than