Digital Money
Money as a social and cultural driver is more and more a relevant subject this days.
About this matter an interesting workshop is going to happen in University of California, Irvine September 18 and 19, 2008 on the subject Everyday digital money:
Rather than replacing cash and coin, or arriving at one new general-purpose form of money, these changes in ICTs and multiple agendas for innovation in money are accelerating its pluralization. Quasi-moneys and para-currencies operate alongside bank-based electronic moneys as well as telecommunications-based currencies that may have only a tenuous or indirect link to state-issued legal tender. These multiple currencies commingle in people’s wallets, restructuring people’s experience of money as well as their everyday practices of budgeting and accounting.
Not that money is an interesting subject but the experience of earning, using and loosing money without seeing it is the existing reality. In Japan paying a burguer with a mobile phone is already in use: “Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with McDonalds to offer electronic payments and special promotions for mobile users.” Several behaviors will emerge from the use of the mobile to pay for goods. Plastic money is in this sense substituted by a form of personal connection to friends, family, acquaintances and the rest of the world in the daily coordination. And this in fact will produce change.
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