I hear they're going to be introducing plastic cards with magnetic strips and a scannable chip soon so people don't have to use smartphones to make payments and so on.
You'll be able to use it in shops, supermarkets on buses and trains a.s.o.
You can also use it to get "cash".
Cash? That's what you can use to buy stuff even if there's no communication network working - even if there's no electricity (as in war) - and it leaves no audit trail !!!
That's progress!



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