On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote:

> I'd rather have stiff cards than floppy paper ones. At least you can put
> them into  the slot of a machine easily.

But with an RF tag you'd not even have to pull it out of your pocket :-)

> But paper money is such a 20th-century thing! These days we're slowly
> drifting back to higher value metal coins (2 pounds out for a few years
> now, 5 pounds coming soon I think). Much more fun. Feels like real
> treasure!  Less of the floppy stuff, we want our ecash to look like real
> cash.

18th century actually.  And the point is the same - people don't like to
change (pun intended!)

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike


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