Title:
Cloudmoney : cash, cards, crypto, and the war for our wallets
Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780062936318
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage"--Title page verso
Contents:
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.
Language:
English
