In the June 2012 edition of the IEE Spectrum the cover page:
The Last Days of CASH
How E-Money Technology is Plugging Us Into the Digital Economy
A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE FUTURE OF MONEY
The edition contains the following articles:
The Beginning of the End of Cash
Money is udergoing its most sweeping changes since the invention of paper bills. Cash's role is waning, as mobile, encryption, and other technologies let us plug directly into the digital economy.
Let a Thousand Currencies Bloom
The mobile phone will create a new monetary order based on a host of currencies not backed by any government.
Blood and Money
Banks in Japan use vein-scanning biometrics in their ATs. Could this technology turn our hands into wallets?
Cashing Out
Is it possible to create your own cashless society? One man tried it, and it tested his resources.
A Brief History of Money
The evolution of money through the millenia is one of increasing abstraction and complexity--and that's okay.
The Cryptoanarchist's Answer to Cash
Bitcoin has resurrected the dream of private, irreversible online transactions.
Virtual Currency Gets Real
The rise of Facebook Credits and other virtual currencies could pose some economic risks.
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting
Physicists are experimenting with quantum tricks to create money that can't be copied.
Phone-Y Money
Schemes enabling smartphones to emulate credit cards are spreading everywhere but in the United States.
No More Waiting on Near Feild Communications
Phones already have enough technology to make mobile payments work.
The Microsecond Market
The financial industry's high-frequency traders vie to shave millionths of a second from their reaction times.
The Long Life and Imminent Death of the Mag-Stripe Card
The story of IBM's mag-stripe technology starts in the '60s and is about to come to an end.
