Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Futurists Don’t Need to Know the Future (w/ “Flash Forward” Host Rose Eveleth)
Rose Eveleth — writer, producer, and “Flash Forward” podcast host — explains why futurists don’t need to know the future. Then, you’ll learn about the oldest examples of money ever discovered.
March 17, 2021
Episode Show Notes:
Additional resources from Rose Eveleth:
- Rose's website: http://roseveleth.com/
- Flash Forward podcast: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/
- Flash Forward Presents: https://www.ffwdpresents.com/
- Follow Rose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roseveleth
Money may have been invented as long as 5,000 years ago by Grant Currin
- Wells, S. (2021, January 20). When was money invented? Bronze Age study has the answer. Inverse; Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/science/origins-of-money
- Kuijpers, M. H. G., & Popa, C. N. (2021). The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0240462. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240462
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