CLOUDMONEY : CASH, CARDS, CRYPTO, AND THE WAR FOR OUR WALLETS /
BRETT SCOTT
- vii, 288 pages ; 23 cm
The nervous system -- The war on cash -- The giant in the mountain -- Digital chips -- The bank-chip society -- Big Brother. Big Bouncer. Big Butler. -- The unnatural progress of a 'Rapidly Changing World' -- Shedding and re-skinning -- Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the data ghost -- Clash of the Leviathans -- A paranormalist's guide to the spectre of Bitcoin -- The political tribes of Cyber-Kowloon -- Raiding the raiders.
A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech.