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From: Wired

Here’s proof you’ll be spending more money in 2016

Wired:

Digital wallets have long been considered to be an ideal of modern life. Apple Pay, Android Pay and the other, similar, platforms available in 2016 will mean that we will deal less with cash — we will be freer, more flexible, spend less time on managing our money, and have a much clearer understanding on what we spend our money on. A sort of utopian era of technological bliss. The queue at Starbucks will be shorter. We won’t have to wait to sign the credit-card receipt at the end of a nice dinner. We won’t miss the Tube while trying to top up our Oyster cards.

And that is just the start. As these digital wallets, and others, develop further, much of the hassle involved with paying could be eliminated. A post-money economy would be upon us.

But, is this kind of future good news for us? Do we truly want to eliminate all the friction that comes with spending cash and swiping credit cards?

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