Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Scott, Brett

Publication

• London : The Bodley Head, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

vii, 288 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 we're told is natural and inevitable is actually the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is for ownership of the digital footprints that make up our lives. Cloudmoney tells a revelatory story about how the fusion of big finance and tech requires physical cash to be replaced by digital money underpinned by the banking sector, or 'cloudmoney'. Diving beneath the surface of the global financial system, Brett Scott uncovers a long-established lobbying infrastructure waging a covert war on cash. He reveals the technical, political and cultural differences between our different 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"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Electronic commerce > Social aspects
• Electronic funds transfers
• Electronic surveillance
• Privacy, Right of
• Commerce électronique > Aspect social
• Transferts électroniques de fonds
• Surveillance électronique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781847925879
• 1847925871
• 9781847926654
• 1847926657
• 9781473569263 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

60002471830

OCLC

• on1308443879
• 1308443879
• SCSB-14225025

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries