Trend: Cashless Society: Myth of the Cashless Society

Forbes reports on the nature of money in the US - in both electronic and paper forms.

"In the last few years, there has been an ever-louder drumbeat of pundits saying the world is moving to eliminate cash, but the many businesses that have popped up in the hope this would come true--Bitbux, Digicash, CyberCash, Flooz, Netchex and PayPal, to name but a few--have found only limited success, or have died, or have been merged into other companies."

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http://www.forbes.com/money/2006/02/11/cashless-society-cash_cx_em_money06_0214cashless.html