If a credit card is vinyl, what is cash?
Vinyl in the News
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember those?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins.
You can already use your iPhone, Droid or BlackBerry to buy a hotdog at the ballgame, buy your Starbucks latté, or give a friend a few bucks by Bumping phones. But by the end of the year you may not even think twice about reaching for your phone to pay at the register instead of fumbling for your credit card.
"Your plastic card hasn't changed since the age of the vinyl records," said Michael Abbott, CEO of Isis, a new mobile payment network. "This is the chance to bring payments forward from the plastic age and the vinyl records age to the digital age."
So "Perfect Money Forever" or "Due to Jitter your payment is Fuzzy"
Bottom line is that I'll still be using full resolution 180 gr gatefold credit cards 30 years from now and the kids will be paying for things with low res compressed money that they download from sketchy web sites.
You can already use your iPhone, Droid or BlackBerry to buy a hotdog at the ballgame, buy your Starbucks latté, or give a friend a few bucks by Bumping phones. But by the end of the year you may not even think twice about reaching for your phone to pay at the register instead of fumbling for your credit card.
"Your plastic card hasn't changed since the age of the vinyl records," said Michael Abbott, CEO of Isis, a new mobile payment network. "This is the chance to bring payments forward from the plastic age and the vinyl records age to the digital age."
So "Perfect Money Forever" or "Due to Jitter your payment is Fuzzy"
Bottom line is that I'll still be using full resolution 180 gr gatefold credit cards 30 years from now and the kids will be paying for things with low res compressed money that they download from sketchy web sites.
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I agree with Inna. They can take those phones and stick them where the sun doesn't shine. I use my cell phone for calls only. It's an antique one at the ripe old age of six years. I don't need it to do all of that crap they're stuffing down our throats when I have a computer at home to do it. When did it become so important to have instant everything all of the time? People are obsessed with these phones, and that's only because advertising is brain-washing everyone to feel they need it. I don't have the time to waste fiddling around on a silly phone that has a screen that is way too small anyways. Science fiction becoming science fact. Everything will be paid with credits. |
If a credit card is vinyl, what is cash? According to them, cash = http://ronmacarthur.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/8-track-12.jpg?w=150&h=88 |
(Remember those?) chuckle chuckle ... like, people don't play records anymore.. yeah well, the folks writing this article have: Ever in their life heard music reproduced with any slight resemblance to fidelity of the original event, any resemblance at all? yeah I'm chuckling at YOU with the SH*T ipod devise... I'll keep spinning my music at 33.3 rpm thank you. ... and I personally have no need for all those microwaves coursing thru my head or body modifying my DNA. |
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