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Letter: A black economy based on IOUs

Published 22 July 2015

From Matthew Billingham

There really is no need to worry about a cashless society (6 June, p 24, and Letters, 27 June). It will never last. As Neal Asher pointed out in his science fiction novel Gridlinked, someone, somewhere will, sooner or later, write an IOU.
Binningen, Switzerland

Issue no. 3031 published 25 July 2015

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