Cloudmoney : cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets / Brett Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Brett, author.

Contributor:

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic funds transfers--Social aspects.

Electronic funds transfers.

Cash transactions--Social aspects.

Cash transactions.

Electronic commerce--Social aspects.

Electronic commerce.

Electronic surveillance.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Cloud money

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Summary:

A monetary anthropologist examines how the drive to create a cashless digital money empire could lead to dire consequences for our civil liberties and create a dangerous nexus of Big Finance and Big Tech.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Nervous System

2. The War on Cash

3. The Giant in the Mountain

4. Digital Chips

5. The Bank-Chip Society

6. Big Brother. Big Bouncer. Big Butler

7. The Unnatural Progress of a `Rapidly Changing World'

8. Shedding and Re-skinning

9. Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Case of the Data Ghost

10. Clash of the Leviathans

11. A Paranormalist's Guide to the Spectre of Bitcoin

12. The Political Tribes of Cyber-Kowloon

13. Raiding the Raiders.

Notes:

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: 9781847926654 Scott, Brett. London : The Bodley Head, 2022

ISBN:

9780062936318

006293631X

OCLC:

1273912747

Publisher Number:

99991092399