TRICKNOWLEDGY ep7 - Cashless Society

1. Saw parking meter that you could pay for w/text from your phone. What if all vendors, even hotdog stands took electronic payments. How long would ppl accept a cashless society the same way they've accepted volunteer surveillance like Facebook?

Discussion questions:
• In a cashless society can anybody make anonymous purchases?
• Would it be probable for a large commercial interest to create a competing currency? Like Facebook dollars? Could that company become s virtual nation state?
• If we go paperless w/our currancy, could we go paperless w/identification as well? Couldn't driver's licence, work IDs be stored in a phone app like cash in your digital wallet?

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2. Space shuttle Atlantis being retired. Can we afford space exploration when GOP and Obama is talking about cutting social programs?

Discussion questions:
• Where can we cuts govt spending in this time of artificial financial crisis? Space program, military, prisons...

3. How will the Captain America movie do overseas? Will they do serious money in Europe, Asia, Eurasia, Middle East? Will it be seen as propaganda? Is it?

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