A Brief History of Money
Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction
June 2012
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The Beginning of The End of Cash
Cash’s role is waning, as mobile, encryption, and other technologies let us plug directly into the digital economy
By Glenn ZorpetteFeatures
Don’t Write Off Checks
Like the paperless office, a check-free society is still far off
My Year Trying to Live Cash Free
Author David Wolman glimpses the all-digital economic future
No More Waiting on Near Field Communication
Start-ups are making mobile payments work without dedicated hardware
Phone-y Money
Why marketers are cramming digital wallets down our throats
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting
Physicists say they can make money that can’t be copied—at least in theory
The Biometric Wallet
Palm vein scanners could eventually replace your wallet with your hand
The Long Life and Imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card
This love child of the airline and banking industries has survived for half a century. But the end is finally near
The Microsecond Market
Sophisticated technology now drives global financial trading to extremes of time and space
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Cleaner Coal’s Last Stand
China’s first coal-gasification power plant starts operating amid high hopes, delays, and cost overruns
Counterfeit Chips on the Rise
As more firms report finding phony chips, the danger they pose becomes clearer
Electromagnetic Depression Treatment Nears Approval
Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation adds to psychiatry’s arsenal of electronicremedies
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