The Future of Money

If there is anything I hate more than cell phones, it’s money.
I mean, of course everybody *likes* money, but seriously, who wants to actually deal with it? Going to the bank, cutting checks to the landlord, saving receipts, budgeting, negotiating salaries, calculating the tip, trying to find stuff on sale, thinking about taxes … [...]

March 20 2008

Online banking = overdue leapfrogging technology

Seems like Paypal is one of those “leapfrogging” technologies that could help entire regions skip the process of developing a banking infrastructure, which apparently takes about 200 years of war (judging from how the West has done it).
Good as it sounds, it is important to note that users in all the African countries covered [...]

May 13 2007