What If Money Didn’t Exist? | Rethinking Value, Power, and Creativity in a Post-Currency World
05/03/25 • 8 min
What happens when the world no longer runs on money?
This lyrical, thought-provoking episode explores a radical question: What if money didn’t exist? Through a vivid, story-driven narrative, we dismantle the economic systems that shape our lives and imagine what might rise from the rubble — a world where creativity, empathy, and community replace currency.
How would we define value without price?
Could cooperation replace competition?
Would art flourish if it wasn’t made to sell?
We examine the collapse of traditional economies, the evolution of power without profit, and the liberation of human creativity from market forces. From resource-based economies and time-based currency to gift cultures and sustainability credits — this episode offers blueprints for a new kind of wealth: measured not in digits, but in dignity and meaning.
This isn’t escapism.
It’s a design brief for the future.
Attitude. Imagination. Execution.
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
What happens when the world no longer runs on money?
This lyrical, thought-provoking episode explores a radical question: What if money didn’t exist? Through a vivid, story-driven narrative, we dismantle the economic systems that shape our lives and imagine what might rise from the rubble — a world where creativity, empathy, and community replace currency.
How would we define value without price?
Could cooperation replace competition?
Would art flourish if it wasn’t made to sell?
We examine the collapse of traditional economies, the evolution of power without profit, and the liberation of human creativity from market forces. From resource-based economies and time-based currency to gift cultures and sustainability credits — this episode offers blueprints for a new kind of wealth: measured not in digits, but in dignity and meaning.
This isn’t escapism.
It’s a design brief for the future.
Attitude. Imagination. Execution.
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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Creativity in Motion: Shaping Tomorrow’s World
Creativity in Motion: Shaping Tomorrow’s World
Keynote modified for podcast by Roy Sharples at EXIST – Exeter Chamber UK | March 27, 2025
The future doesn’t belong to those who play it safe—it belongs to the bold. In this special episode, we bring you Roy Sharples’ keynote from EXIST, Exeter Chamber UK's Implementing Innovation event.
From The Beatles to Bowie, Jobs to Disney—history shows that true innovation is driven by outsiders who dare to think differently.
Roy Sharples—author of Creativity Without Frontiers and founder of Unknown Origins—has helped shape iconic brands and build industry-defining products. His mission: fight mediocrity and ignite creative bravery.
What you’ll learn
1. Why creativity—not process—is your last real competitive edge
2. How to turn bold ideas into tangible, lasting impact
3. Why now is the time to stop playing it safe and start leading with imagination
Why it matters
Because the world doesn’t remember the followers.
It remembers the fearless.
Creativity is the last competitive edge—are you using it?
Learn more: www.unknownorigins.com
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What If the Renaissance Never Happened? | A World Without Creative Revolutions
What if the Renaissance never ignited?
No Sistine ceiling. No Da Vinci inventions. No rebellious art or radical thought.
This immersive, story-driven episode explores a haunting alternative history: a world where creativity was never set free. Through the lens of cultural revolutions — from the Renaissance and Enlightenment to Modernism, Punk, and the Digital Age — we trace the seismic role imagination plays in shaping civilization.
What happens when curiosity is outlawed?
What does culture become when rebellion is erased?
What world emerges when the digital revolution is left unwritten?
This is not just a thought experiment.
It’s a mirror. A warning. A call to ignite the next creative revolution.
Because creativity isn’t a luxury — it’s the thread that holds us together.
In a time of global crises, we don’t need more compliance — we need imagination.
We must create our way forward.
Attitude. Imagination. Execution.
Create Without Frontiers.
🌐 www.unknownorigins.com
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