Book
Cloudmoney : cash, cards, crypto and the war for our wallets / Brett Scott.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062936318 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Harper Business, [2022]
- Copyright: ©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 and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Electronic commerce > Social aspects. Electronic funds transfers. Electronic surveillance. Privacy, Right of. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 332.4 Sco | 31681010283281 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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 Tech and Big Tech. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
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. - HARPERCOLL
Axiom Award Gold Medalist for Business Commentary
The reach of Corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater; many of us rarely use cash these days. But what weâre told is a natural and inevitable move is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is the battle for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives.
In Cloudmoney, Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and Big Tech requires âcloudmoneyââdigital money underpinned by the banking sectorâto replace physical cash. He dives beneath the surface of the global financial system to uncover a long-established lobbying infrastructure: an alliance of partners waging a covert war on cash. He explains the technical, political, and cultural differences between our various forms of money and shows how the cash system has been under attack for decades, as banking and tech companies promote a cashless society under the banner of progress.
Cloudmoney takes us to the front lines of a war for our wallets that is also about our freedom, from marketing strategies against cash to the weaponization of COVID-19 to push fintech platforms, and from there to the rise of the cryptocurrency rebels and fringe groups pushing back. It asks the most pressing questions:
Who benefits from a cashless society and who gets left behind?
Is the end of cash the end of true privacy?
And is our cloudmoney future closer than we think it is?
