10-06-2013, 07:34 AM
Over 40 years ago the science fiction writer Mack Reynolds postulated a society that granted everybody a guaranteed basic income in the form of dividend-yielding "inalienable basic stock". His story "A Criminal in Utopia" from 1968 also had voice recognition computers, wristwatches with video displays, self-driving cars, fingerprint access for credit cards, and centralized government databases.