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A few years ago, well before the NFT hit mainstream, the Speculative Fiction writer William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace (Neuromancer, 1984), told me that in the future the ability to point to the original version of something will become a very valuable skill and trade. Not surprising to hear from someone who has a prized collection of wristwatches. A true collector who only ever started using the internet himself in the late 1990s to use ebay for new acquisitions. This unique and original nature of the object, an obsession ever since the Byzantine era, has ruptured the internet …