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...GOING CASHLESS...
Under the new Crimson Cash system, students no longer have to carry real money. For the perennially cashless, this means that you don't have to write a check...
Their final projects reflect just how far Fulton's students have traveled from their first days as computer innocents. Sophomore Rebecca Jones analyzed teleshopping with an eye toward the future of cashless transactions, while Nikolai Mamyrin explored the cyberfrontier of his native Russia. Each of the projects can be accessed on the class's World Wide Web home page http://www.duke.edu/ peh), co-designed by Hobson, Seth Squadron and Brian Thompson as their own final project...
...everyone striving to be cashless has achieved this sense of breezy convenience. But the vision seems only a few mishaps and controversies away...
Small wonder that the advance toward a cashless society has created a new category of frustrated consumers. Hudson Hendren, an engineer in Herndon, Virginia, was mortified last summer when the phone company shut off his service after failing to receive a payment he had made through the ScanFone system. In New York City, hundreds of subway passengers complained last month that the new electronic fare cards were double-charging them for rides or failing to let them through the automated turnstiles. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority blamed the confusion on riders who had not yet learned...