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“payment (imagine not needing a wallet because the combination of your face, gait, and voice is enough to verify you)“ If it can be done from a distance, this
by travisporter 7y ago
“payment (imagine not needing a wallet because the combination of your face, gait, and voice is enough to verify you)“
If it can be done from a distance, this is bone chilling to me. A company could use this to literally extract money from someone’s bank account.
I agree with the rest of your sentiment though.
- onemoresoop 7y agoWhats the big deal to not carry a wallet? It’s not the convenience I’d swap for privacy. If you imagine where this could go wrong it becomes easier to just stick to the wallet. Even to cash.
- headsoup 7y agoIt seems to fall under the quiet assumption that technology advances and automation are inherently good, and that manual processes and analogue things are inefficient and undesirable. We don't even do the whole 'should we' evaluation because it is assumed it will happen anyway somehow and we'll figure out the rules after the fact.