My colleagues in Korea tell me that things there are now pretty much post-money. If you want to buy anything, or get swiped into your office building, you need your phone.<\/p>\n
I asked one colleague what happens if you lose your phone. He got a panicked look on his face, and told me that it can take weeks of paperwork to re-establish that you are really you and get another authorized phone.<\/p>\n
We are starting to get a bit of this in NYC, in our primitive way. I was one of the last holdouts still using a MetroCard. Now I just hold my credit card over the turnstiles like everyone else I know.<\/p>\n
I wonder how all this will play out when those future glasses arrive, and replace our smartphones. Will the entire concept of money as we know it begin to fade away, when the process of checking out becomes a fully automated part of your shopping experience?<\/p>\n
Wherever you go, and whatever you do, you will be continually charged as a sort of background tax on your lifestyle. Children will grow up having the instinctive understanding that certain activities drain your account more quickly than others.<\/p>\n
Money, as we now know it, will be one of those fondly remembered things of old, like ice delivery or like having a telephone in your kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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