Money by Berry Gordy, Jr. and Janie Bradford Vast amounts of money zip around the globe at the speed of light as electronically stored data. This makes some people nervous. This new money is like a shadow. Its cool-gray shape can be seen but not touched. It has no tactile dimension, no height or weight. . . .
Money is now an image.
1 Kurtzman laments money's loss of tangibility. Such brouhaha over money shedding its physical skin and slithering into cyberspace is probably unwarranted. For one thing, if money is truly dead, or at least dangerously disembodied as Kurtzman suggests, its demise is not recent. Money does not depend on palpability per se , and never has. In fact, most modern money has not had a palpable form for some time.