And about time too, the digerati exclaim. Cash is annoying stuff. It is easy to steal.
Coins produce holes in our pockets.
Face it, cash is for the Stone Age. Not that electronic currency is new. Large transactions have been hurtling around the globe at the speed of light for years. What is new is that banks, businesses and software firms want to bring cyberpayments to the masses. The impetus for the coming revolution, of course, is the Internet, which big business hopes to turn into a borderless shopping mall.