[ WP ] A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words -- Literally . All world currency has been replaced by the spoken word .

At a certain point in human history communication became repetitive and basic. Two schools of thought emerged- the liberal left wanted communication to become ever further developed and to become even more intermeshed into society, while an intensely conservative right wanted to conserve the'sanctity of language' by preventing it's perversion into ever more buzzy articles and slang degradation. 
 
 For years an international parliament debated, and in 2057 the conservative right had gained traction after a year marked by multiple world leaders butchering public speeches and were accused of being too lax with their words. 
 
 The THOUSAND act was drafted a year later, and it's implementation was simple. The act initially converted every dollar or unit of currency into the ability to communicate 10 seconds of speech. Implementation was a bitch; new monitoring systems had to be created in the form of software that wrote into the preexisting mental chips that 90 % of the populace already had. Many critiques called the act an abomination and an invasion of free speech. But the general public accepted the act as a way to help restore the respect towards the spoken word. 
 

