For the great social distancing, technologies that are there-for-folks:
- Internet: work from home
- Zoom: virtual meets
- YouTube: education, entertainment
- Social media: community, news
- Ecommerce: retail, food, groceries
- E-banking: banking, payments
- Messaging, email: communications
Digital Currency
Late to the party is digital currency. How could it help?
Late to the party is digital currency. How could it help?
- Micropayments: for micro gigs or products
- Seamless cross-border: for small businesses
- Progammable: monetary confidence in aid and stimulus
- Ledgered: regulatory confidence in currency flows
- Parallel: can co-exists with legacy cash
- Green hygiene: Less need for physical cash
Wearable Wallets
Digital wallets pair nicely with digital currencies. Ideal characteristics:
Digital wallets pair nicely with digital currencies. Ideal characteristics:
- Wearable like a watch (v more clumsy phone or scary skin chipping)
- Can range from a chipped wristband to a full-featured smartwatch
- Present uses (for watch): time, notifications, bio monitor
- New uses: payments, id, access (vehicle, office, residence)
- Finger gesture control eg. point index finger to transact
- Thumb up to confirm (if required) or splay fingers to dismiss