The End of Money - Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers-and the Coming Cashless Society - 9780306821479
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End of Money Wolman, David, For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical money--to say nothing of its value--is coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon disappear, author and "Wired "contributing editor David Wolman sets out to investigate the future of money...and how it will affect your wallet.Wolman begins his journey by deciding to shun cash for an entire year--a surprisingly successful experiment (with a couple of notable exceptions). He then ventures forth to find people and technologies that illuminate the road ahead. In Honolulu, he drinks Mai Tais with Bernard von NotHaus, a convicted counterfeiter and alternative-currency evangelist whom government prosecutors have labeled a domestic terrorist. In Tokyo, he sneaks a peek at the latest anti-counterfeiting wizardry, while puzzling over the fact that banknote forgers depend on society's addiction to cash. In a downtrodden Oregon town, he mingles with obsessive coin collectors--the people who are supposed to love cash the most, yet don't. And in rural Georgia, he examines why some people feel the end of cash is Armageddon's warm-up act. After stops at the Digital Money Forum in London and Iceland's central bank, Wolman flies to Delhi, where he sees first-hand how cash penalizes the poor more than anyone--and how mobile technologies promise to change that.Told with verve and wit, "The End of Money "explores an aspect of our daily lives so fundamental that we rarely stop to think about it. You'll never look at a dollar bill the same again.

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For ages, money has been represented by little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical money—to say nothing of its value—is coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon disappear, author and Wired contributing editor David Wolman sets out to investigate the future of money…and how it will affect your wallet. Told with verve and wit, The End of Money explores an aspect of our daily lives so fundamental that we rarely stop to think about it. You’ll never look at a dollar bill the same way again. , Paperback, Ausgabe: First Trade Paper Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2013-08-13, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1280519.

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business and investing,e-commerce,economics,money and monetary policy,politics and social sciences,popular culture,processes and infrastructure,social sciences, Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012: Say good-bye to your beloved Benjamins, because the world is going cashless. So says David Wolman, and in The End of Money, he explores the drastic implications. How is it happening? What's at stake? Why does it matter? Each chapter of this timely and fascinating book focuses on a specific aspect of the coming cashlessness. Its cast of compelling characters includes an end-times fundamentalist who views the growing obsolescence of cash as a sign of the coming rapture; an Icelandic artist whose claim to fame illustrates the complicated relationship between cash and nationalism; an American libertarian and coin-maker convicted on federal charges for the distribution of "Liberty" coins and Ron Paul dollars; and an Indian software engineer (self-billed as "the assassin of cash") whose firm is enabling digital payment methods that are lifting the living standards of thousands of poor New Dehli residents via their cell phones. Raising the stakes with a personal experiment, Wolman goes (almost) a full year without using cash at all. All told, The End of Money offers everything there is to love about popular nonfiction, rendering a complex subject entertaining and easily approachable for a wide audience while proving the ultimate adventurousness inherent in a curiosity about the workings of the world. --Jason Kirk.

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Wolman offers this critical exploration of the historical present roles of currency arguing for the conclusion that cash is soon to become obsolete. He begins with the advent of paper money and then addresses a number of issues associated with it and its relationship to other forms of currency: transmission of germs and other contaminants, counterfeiting, irrational differences in spending behavior depending the form of currency used, the relationships of different national and transnational currencies, voluntary private currency including cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin, and class dynamics of cash and credit. After spending most of the book arguing cash is on the decline, a final sentimental chapter considers coin collectors and the way they illuminate the psychological merits of continuing to use physical currency. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) For ages, money has been represented by little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical moneyto say nothing of its valueis coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon disappear, author and Wired contributing editor David Wolman sets out to investigate the future of money?and how it will affect your wallet. Told with verve and wit, The End of Money explores an aspect of our daily lives so fundamental that we rarely stop to think about it. Youll never look at a dollar bill the same way again. 2013/08/13, Paperback / Taschenbuch, Neuware, Paperback / Taschenbuch, 295g, 238, Internationaler Versand, offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), sofortueberweisung.de, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, PayPal, Lastschrift, Banküberweisung.

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