Paying Bills in the Future
Soon enough our nation will never have to leave their house for anything, all the necessities will be accessible via cell phone or something else. I was looking on the New York Times website and they had an article about a device that they iPhone has that allows the user to make payments with their credit cards. If Apple can create something like this then imagine what’s going to happen in the future.
The gismo makes it able to pay any sort of bills that a consumer has or allows them to make donations to many different groups. The device plugs right into the head phone jack and can somehow read the magnetic strip on the card and then it transfers the selected amount of money. This invention is very useful if the user is very lazy, but this technology can lead to much more technology. 
The iPhone also has another application that allows two different people to transfer money between their accounts through a bump of each iPhone. This app makes it extremely easy for a friend to pay them back and through this technology it could completely eliminate the use of cash. The iPhone is definitely the best phone out in the market, but it’s only accessible for those people who have AT&T. If I could have any phone it would be this one, but since I have Sprint I could not easily get an iPhone. There is a way of getting this phone, but I would have to buy a $600 unlocked iPhone and then crack that so it is able to work on the Sprint network. By doing this there’s a chance that it would not work and that would be $600 down the drain. I have heard talk of the iPhone wanting to switch phone companies because AT&T pretty much sucks and hopefully it would switch to sprint!
Now to switch over to the topic of electronic money, I believe that in the future the need of cash will not be a need. Everything will be accessible via credit card, were starting to switch over to that technology now with the sensor on the sliding devices that does not require the user to slide their card. Eventually all places will have this technology and swiping will be the new trend not sliding!
Photo from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/technology/29cashless.html?ref=technology
This remindes me of I robot when will smith is just walking out the door of the bar and he waves his badge at a scanner and it says thanks while charging him for the dinks he had. I think this would be a very convinent piece of tec.