Drifting into a cashless society…
HAVE A look in your purse or wallet. What you’ll find there possibly is a glimpse of the future.
Because I bet you a pound to a penny – remember pennies? – that some banknotes you find have been there a while, even though you’ve been spending.
Fact is, cash is yesterday’s way of spending. Folding dosh looks to be doomed – and coinage as the world has known it since people jingled shekels 5000 years ago is on the way out.
Many believe we really are sleepwalking into a cashless society – and they may be right. Sweden, where even the homeless have a cash-free existence,
