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keepingthefaith · Guest

http://www.wps6.co.uk/~dev_lfld/view_page.asp?page_id=203&section_id=1
The Future of Shopping and the End of Freedom.

‘Going, going, gone.’ As I went up the escalator at Waterloo station in London, I noticed a series of adverts announcing the coming end of cash. It was promoting one of the new payment cards which will allow consumers to make small purchases from a glass of beer to a newspaper without cash. Customers will be able to tap or wave the card over a scanner and buy items less than £10 in value. This will inevitably mean the demise of cash on the high street. A study by retail analysts Datamonitor suggests that ‘tap and go’ could replace the use of cash in purchases totalling £32 billion a year within 5 to 10 years. The cards will work in a similar way to the Oyster scheme on London’s transport system. Millions of commuters pay for travel on the tubes and buses by passing their Oyster cards over sensors at ticket barriers.
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Eddie c · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Manchester

As a window cleaner will i have to have a sensor strapped to my body Icon_swoon

Eddie
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keepingthefaith · Guest

Trust you to think on that Eddie Icon_rotfl

Talitha Tetelestai · Guest

Don't let them put a chip in your forehead Eddie Icon_wink

keepingthefaith · Guest

OR on your shoulder Icon_rotfl

bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1324

The original hearers/readers of Revelation would have had no notion at all about the cashless society of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Consequently their understanding of Revelation 13 (not of course that they would have known it by that title) would have been very different. I honestly feel that the fears about barcodes and microchips heralding the Beast and his mark are totally groundless.

Talitha Tetelestai · Guest

I don't believe in the chip thing Bobby, was just joking around Icon_hugginsmileys_753

bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1324

I didn't really have anyone else's post in mind TT, more the article itself to which anne referred in her opening post.

Talitha Tetelestai · Guest

Ok,sorry

Eddie c · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Manchester

Talitha Tetelestai · Guest

Now thats sweet Eddie..you have restored my fast dwindling hope in humanity (until the next crisis) Icon_hugginsmileys_753

Nancy · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 1095 Location: Illinois, U.S.A.

Interesting you should bring this up. In the States we have what is called "fast-tap". A small card you wave or tap over a sensor at gas stations,supermarkets,etc. They even have TV commercials for this. I always attributed this to people just being in too much of hurry or lazy.

Eddie, why would a window washer need a *chip/sensor*???
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Eddie c · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Manchester

Nancy,
people pay in cash,mostly.No cash...no bread.

Eddie
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angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

Eddie Can you Nip round and do my Windows, I will leave the money on the Bathroom Windowsill. [Now How much should I leave] Icon_thinking

Eddie c · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 685 Location: Manchester

Angel. for you its free.

Eddie
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