Today I found myself thinking about how the world will adapt to a cashless society. It all started at the grocery store. After all the items were scanned I watched the monitor on the credit card scanner. I noticed that a QR code for paying the bill showed up on the monitor. Normally, I just go right to using my credit card. But this time the QR code caught my attention and started me thinking about digital currencies.
It seems like everyday I hear some story about digital currencies and a cashless society in the near future.
Then I thought, how will those less fortunate who ask for donations need to adapt to digital currency. Most of us have seen people holding up cardboard signs asking for help/donations.
Charitable organizations are already adapting to a digital currency world. The Salvation Army has a QR code for donations.
In the cashless society possibly those less fortunate who ask for donations along our sidewalks and streets will need to seek out vendors for QR stickers.
The QR sticker would be applied to their cardboard signs.
To donate passers-by would just scan the QR code and make a donation.
Who knows maybe the QR scanning app will even make a clang-clang sound like coins being tossed into a pan.
You can probably think about other changes there will be as the world moves toward a cashless (digital) society.
Your comments and thoughts about what will need to change and how we will need to adapt to a cashless society are appreciated.
Special Note I added the QR code to the signs. Image credits are for the original pictures.