Aug 29, 2008 2:06 AM

The Future of Money - Core77 and RCA

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/rca_the_future_of_money_10007.asp

Link: RCA: The Future of Money - Core77.

MA students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art (((read: Dunne & Raby, the awe-inspiring mavens of "critical design"))) were challenged to explore the future of money when it disappears as a physical currency.
The Brief:
As the technology of e-money and currency advances, how will that effect the social and psychological dimensions associated with those technologies? What new behaviours, new dangers, new rituals, and new pleasures could emerge?

(((Check out that checkout video. That kills me.)))

(((Also: what if you're a psychotic *miser* and you have nothing but electronic money? How are you going to obsessively count and recount your cash?)))

http://beta.interaction.rca.ac.uk/fom/index.php?/project/nelly-ben-hayoun/

The inflatable money pig.

http://beta.interaction.rca.ac.uk/fom/index.php?/project/susanna-hertich/

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