Biometric payment options are becoming more common in the U.S., such as Apple Face ID enabling app purchases, and Amazon's introduction of pay-by-palm technology in stores, and financial firms from JPMorgan to Mastercard embracing the technology.People who are tempted by this sort of thing need to watch the "Cathy, Don't Go" music video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknW2mzXMMY).
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Cathy, Don't Go
Todd Wasserman, "With JPMorgan, Mastercard on board in biometric ‘breakthrough’ year, you may soon start paying with your face," CNBC (May 20, 2024):