Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.

Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of devices, flowing from phone to phone and computer to computer, rather than being sealed away in those silent marble temples we used to call banks.

In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.

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