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Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--and the Coming Cashless Society
Da Capo Press
February 2012
On Sale: February 14, 2012
240 pages
ISBN: 0306818833
EAN: 9780306818837
Kindle: B006YTPR2W
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Non-Fiction
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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