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Your Money Will Be Digital. Will It Be Smart?
If our e-wallets can’t make some purchasing decisions, the promise of easier payments will melt like ice cream on a summer day.
And what about the change?
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It’s fun to watch young children learn to handle cash by buying an ice cream and giving us back the change. But there will be nothing adorable about being surrounded by machines that need equally patient hand-holding when it comes to using money, like making sure our refrigerator stocks up the right vegetables in correct quantities before it pays the delivery robot.
Doing this every day with each of our 15 online devices will mean we do nothing else in our internet-of-things future.