Elliot: Freud thought we were motivated by sex.
Cathie: Ahhh, excuse me, do you know where you are?
Elliot: Yeah, We are writing a blog posting about technology.
Cathie: Phew, I was thinking you were back on your therapist’s couch.
Elliot: Nah, I gave that up…
Cathie… after 16 years of therapy.
Elliot: I thought that was long enough.
Cathie: Now that we have cleared that up, what has Freud to do with technology?
Elliot: I was getting there but…
Cathie: … so get there.
Elliot: Maslow, on the other hand, felt that people were motivated by needs and he developed a hierarchy of needs.
Cathie (with a look of horror): You’re not going to share with us YOUR needs, are you?
Elliot: Ha ha. But Maslow said we must satisfy our lower level needs before we can focus on satisfying our higher level needs.
Cathie: Oh gosh, kids might read this column – please be careful.
Elliot (laughing): I posit that, as this floor mat reminds the person leaving their domicile, your cellphone ranks up there with money and keys as core items.
Cathie: Amazing!
Elliot: Thank you, I thought that was pretty brilliant.
Cathie: No, not you, you big goof, but an amazing coincidence. Yesterday I was reading in USA Today about a device that enables cellphones to accept credit cards and the following quote appeared:
"In America, people do not leave their home without
keys, their cellphone and their wallet…"
Elliot: And here is another coincidence! I am working with North American Bancard, a local Michigan company, that is about to launch a device that enables smartphones to accept credit cards! Besides the cool factor, NAB’s product is revolutionary – quite literally, everyone can accept credit cards instead of cash for payment.
Cathie: Goodbye cash, absolutely – but for how long will credit cards be around? There was just an article in the New York Times that commented: “…no one knows how long plastic cards will reign. They may eventually be rendered obsolete by technologies that will transform consumers’ cellphones into virtual wallets…”
Elliot: Who needs keys? Your codes are in your cellphone. Beam and Open!
Cathie: Who needs a wallet? All those papers and photos you cram into your wallet….
Elliot.. all digital, all on my cellphone.
Cathie: Let’s make sure we have better security first.
Elliot: Yeah, there is a 100% probability that I will lose my cellphone…
Cathie (with a knowing smile creeping across her face): I must concur…
i think Korea and Japan have been using cellphones to make purchases for years.
Posted by: joe | 11/02/2010 at 07:49 AM
I heard out in the eastern world you can make cellphone purchases to vending machines. Just today I was reading about how apple has been submitting near field communications patents like crazy lately. This could turn your cellphone to (among other things) a blink credit card. Just tap your cellphone to the credit card swiper and it authenticates you and debts the account you have registered. Pretty cool and slightly scary if you have a habit of "misplacing" your phone :)
Posted by: Landen Zackery | 11/02/2010 at 09:17 PM
This sounds a bit like when we were first informed that plastic cards would take over for the paper money. I remember being a little girl when I first heard that and I thought it made no sense that a plastic card could ever replace actual money! So in this case I would not be surprised at all that cell phones take over as a means of rendering payment.
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