Are We Heading Towards A Cashless Society?
The western world is advancing at such a rate now that it seems almost inevitable that we are slowly heading towards a cashless society. You only have to go outside and go about your daily life to see how fast technology is advancing. Take London as an example. They’re actively encouraging people not to carry cash around with them with recent initiatives they’ve introduced. First of all they issued Oyster cards, which people can use to pay for London’s bus and tube networks, and just recently the Evening Standard made it possible for customers to pay for their newspaper via a cashless payment card. Now I hear that they’re considering making it possible to pay for parking in the city via mobile phone rather than parking meters so this is yet another reason for people not to carry cash around with them. If this spreads to the rest of the UK, and if other countries adopt similar initiatives, then it’s surely only a matter of time before the whole of the western world uses technology in th
