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

Scott, Brett, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062936318
  • ISBN: 006293631X
  • Physical Description: vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage"--Title page verso
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The nervous system -- The war on cash -- The giant in the mountain -- Digital chips -- The bank-chip society -- Big Brother. Big Bouncer. Big Butler. -- The unnatural progress of a 'Rapidly Changing World' -- Shedding and re-skinning -- Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the data ghost -- Clash of the Leviathans -- A paranormalist's guide to the spectre of Bitcoin -- The political tribes of Cyber-Kowloon -- Raiding the raiders.
Subject: Electronic funds transfers > Social aspects.
Cash transactions > Social aspects.
Electronic commerce > Social aspects.
Electronic surveillance.
Technology > Social aspects.

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