Here in Belgium we have the same cards, and the readers are cheap. The reason they will be wide-spread is because you can use them to file your taxes online, wh

Here in Belgium we have the same cards, and the readers are cheap. The reason they will be wide-spread is because you can use them to file your taxes online, which many people are starting to prefer over the paper version. I think it's a good incentive for people to start buying these things. I just hope they will become standard on computers soon, but I fear not because the dominant markets (US, really) don't have such systems.