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Comment by melling

The long slow road to contactless payments. Almost 2 decades along in the technology adoption curve.

I was ready for this in 2005.

https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/debt-manage...

If course as the article points out, it wasn’t even new technology back then:

“ Not Exactly New Tech Mobile introduced the Speedpass in 1997. Speedpass is a small device on a keychain (called a fob) that users wave in front of the Speedpass logo on gas pumps. The cost of the gas is automatically deducted from the user's Speedpass account”

parent melling 4 years ago

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