Whuffie
Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. This book describes a post-scarcity economy: All the necessities (and most of the luxuries) of life are free for the taking. A person's current Whuffie is instantly viewable to anyone, as everybody has a brain-implant giving them an interface with the Net.
The term has since seen some adoption as a synonym for
social capital, including its use in the title of the
Tara Hunt book
The Whuffie Factor.
Contents [hide]
1 Explanation
2 The Whuffie Bank
3 Etymology
4 See also
5 References