IEEE Spectrum Digs Into the Future of Money 292
New submitter ArmageddonLord writes "Small, out-of-pocket cash exchanges are still the stuff of everyday life. In 2010, cash transactions in the United States totaled $1.2 trillion (not including extralegal ones, of course). There will come a day, however, when you'll be able to transfer funds just by holding your cellphone next to someone else's and hitting a few keys — and this is just one of the ways we'll wean ourselves off cash. In 'The Last Days of Cash,' a special report on the future of money, we describe the various ways that technology is transforming how we pay for stuff; how it's boosting security by linking our biometric selves with our accounts; and how it's helping us achieve, at least in theory, an ancient ideal — money that cannot be counterfeited."
Re:Freedom (Score:3, Funny)
Banks cannot print money out of thin air and use it to pay off their debt. Only government can do that, because government makes the rules.
Re:Not the end of cash. (Score:4, Funny)
You're not going to wave your cellphone over a stripper.
You are if you're using four square to me mayor of that stripper ;-) The fun is finder her QR code.