Paid: Tales of dongles, checks, and other money stuff (Book review)
Paid: Tales of dongles, checks, and other money stuff (Book review)
- January 31, 2017
- New book by social sciences dean Bill Maurer is reviewed in Wired, Jan. 31, 2017
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Paid’s authors describe these payment-adjacent objects so engagingly that for a moment, financial leftovers seem more interesting than finance. Paid encourages us to take a moment to look at the nuts and bolts of our everyday transactions by looking at the stuff that surrounds them. ... Edited by Bill Maurer, dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of How Would You Like to Pay: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money and other books.
For the full story, please visit https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/01/paid-tales-dongles-checks-money-stuff/.
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