Will cash become obsolete?

[MB_722]

think it will happen?

[Hugo Chavez]

If those behind the case for total information awareness have any say it will.

[240 is Back]

there will always be tens of millions of poverty-level consumers who use it. 

it makes business more efficient and does give big brother more info on you, it's true.

but cash will always be here.  maybe not 200 years down the road.  But you can't exactly sell drugs on credit. 

[Butterbean]

think it will happen?

I believe yes.

  But you can't exactly sell drugs on credit. 

That'll be one of the many reasons they give for getting rid of it.

[24KT]

Cash will never be obsolete. It may not exist in it's current form, ...but there will always be some immediate untraceable medium of exchange. Prison systems use cigarettes, mainstream society may turn to something else, ...but it will always exist.

[Hugo Chavez]

But you can't exactly sell drugs on credit. 

sure you can.  I could think of at least one way to do exactly that right now, if cash was gone, all sorts of inventive illicit business practices would bloom.