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To: i-node who wrote (62350)	10/31/2001 8:41:06 AM
From: Timetobuy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Technology would be deployed faster were it not for public slowness in adopting it. ATM's still involve cash. Was your call that we wouldn't go into the bank physically to get it or that we would become cashless? I've been mostly but not totally cashless for a couple years. Much easier to charge everything and pay the bill online or via automatic payments. If I write 5 checks in a month, it's a big month. Were it not for my son's extracurricular activities and fund raising activities I might even have a month that didn't have any checks go through the bank or have much need for cash at all. Still can't charge one banana at the fruit stand though. My mom otoh wouldn't go near an ATM and if I heard that she set up an automatic payment or paid for something on line, I'd probably fall off my chair. My local realtor said that from what she's seen, even in houses that have full networking capabilities, most people don't take advantage of it. Those who paid for it, probably are better adopters than those who got it as a standard with the house. My feeling is that some day the majority of people will use it, the same as ATM's. It will be second nature. I don't know how long that takes. I'm surprised it's not more widely used now.

To: i-node who wrote (62350)	10/31/2001 12:59:04 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

David, I believe that a cashless society will never happen. Ever. If not paper money and coins, then some physical substitute will be used. Color them Paranoid, but some people just don't want their every monetary transaction recorded in corporate and government databases, to be used for god-knows-what from now until the end of time. If cash is outlawed, only outlaws will use cash. Dave

To: i-node who wrote (62350)	10/31/2001 4:59:25 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

David - 802.11 is fine for internet access from multiple points - my laptop, my kids' laptops and a couple of machines that do mostly net access are wireless. But any serious work with video or big format photos, for example, is very sluggish on wireless, and also hogs the bandwidth so that other wireless users get squashed. I find even 100Mb Ethernet to be slow for big video files and have gigabit between the workstation I use for composition and the server that holds the data. So I think the efficacy of wireless depends a lot on usage.