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Where I often see these things, their UI/UX is horrible. I'm a bit of a gadget-geek and rather a tech-savvy person, and yet I did make mistakes with them and w

Where I often see these things, their UI/UX is horrible. I'm a bit of a gadget-geek and rather a tech-savvy person, and yet I did make mistakes with them and wasted time because of the UI/UX. > The real future will be no-checkout though: just take the stuff you need and go, shops would be able to detect what you got there and bill you. I really hope not. That would be a privacy nightmare. And how would I then pay in cash?

gregoriol 3y ago
Well, maybe there will be some validation at the exit of the shop, maybe a message on the phone to check that you indeed bought those things. But cash is going to be gone too in the future-future.
- mbork_pl 3y ago
  > But cash is going to be gone too in the future-future. Like famine, poverty, cancer and CSS? ;-) Yeah, sure. Seriously though: history shows that if official money is not trusted (for some reason), another form emerges. So no, cash will be there as long as humankind exists.
  - gregoriol 3y ago
    It'll be marginal at some point, like people riding horses to work.
    - mbork_pl 3y ago
      Maybe, though I doubt it. Cash has some advantages which make it very appealing in certain circumstances. Anonymity is only one of them, and probably not even the most important one – cash does not rely on network being available.
      - freeone3000 3y ago
        Where do you live where there isn't 24/7 internet saturation from at least three different sources? When the internet goes out, the stores just close.
        mbork_pl 3y ago
        What about when the internet goes down for several weeks or months...?
        freeone3000 3y ago
        This is not a thing that happens in the US, except in disaster-recovery scenarios.
        mbork_pl 3y ago
        There is a regular war going on in the country neighboring my one, a thing that was hard to think of several years ago. We had a pandemic and lockdowns destabilizing lives of millions of people and thousands of businesses. What makes you think the US are immune to disasters resulting in having no internet for weeks or longer?

gregoriol 3y ago

Well, maybe there will be some validation at the exit of the shop, maybe a message on the phone to check that you indeed bought those things. But cash is going to be gone too in the future-future.

mbork_pl 3y ago
> But cash is going to be gone too in the future-future. Like famine, poverty, cancer and CSS? ;-) Yeah, sure. Seriously though: history shows that if official money is not trusted (for some reason), another form emerges. So no, cash will be there as long as humankind exists.
- gregoriol 3y ago
  It'll be marginal at some point, like people riding horses to work.
  - mbork_pl 3y ago
    Maybe, though I doubt it. Cash has some advantages which make it very appealing in certain circumstances. Anonymity is only one of them, and probably not even the most important one – cash does not rely on network being available.
    - freeone3000 3y ago
      Where do you live where there isn't 24/7 internet saturation from at least three different sources? When the internet goes out, the stores just close.
      - mbork_pl 3y ago
        What about when the internet goes down for several weeks or months...?
        freeone3000 3y ago
        This is not a thing that happens in the US, except in disaster-recovery scenarios.
        mbork_pl 3y ago
        There is a regular war going on in the country neighboring my one, a thing that was hard to think of several years ago. We had a pandemic and lockdowns destabilizing lives of millions of people and thousands of businesses. What makes you think the US are immune to disasters resulting in having no internet for weeks or longer?