Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

Foreword: dead money / Bruce Sterling -- Introduction: curating transactional things / Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz -- Dongles / Scott Mainwaring -- Checks / Lisa Servon -- Tattoos Lynn gamble -- Mag stripe / Dave Stearns -- Ledgers / Taylor Nelms -- Dogecoin / Sarah Jeong -- Khipu / Gary Urton...

The future of money / by Riel Miller, Wolfgang Michalski and Barrie Stevens -- Whence and whither money? / by Michel Aglietta -- The future technology of money / by Zachary Tumin -- Intangible economy and electronic money / by Charles Goldfinger -- New monetary spaces? / by Geoffrey Ingham --...