>In a world where "full" nanotech is available to everyone,
>there will be only three things of value:
(1) Knowledge: eg technology, real-time data (stock prices, events) (2) Services: eg educational, medical, technical (human or AI) (3) Antiques: not n-copies :)
I'd agree with the first two, but definitely not the third. If the n-copy is atomically identical, how could you tell which was the original? You would be dependent on your trust of whoever you got it from. And how much could you trust their sources? Therefore, I can't see anything but family heirlooms being valuable, and you couldn't sell them because an outsider probably wouldn't have the level of trust necessary to verify it.
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