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Today our lives are changing faster than at any time in history. Here we report on two important changes that will have a big impact on our everyday lives in the future.

The cashless societyCash and bank-notes will disappear almost completely. They will be replaced by smart cards—plastic cards with microchip processors "loaded" with some money. When we pay for goods, the retailer will insert our smart card into a payment terminal and money will be transferred from our card to the retailer’s car
D、When all the money is used up, we will be able to "reload" it by inserting it into a telephone, dialing our bank account and transferring money to the card from the account. If we want to transfer money from our card to a bank account, we will use the same metho
D、Smart cards will be able to hold several different currencies at the same time, so if we go aboard, we will use our smart cards in the same way.
Interactive telephone Human telephone operators will be sharply replaced by talking computers. These computers will recognize speech, ask us what information we need, access the information from a database, and convert it to speech. If we want to book a flight or pay a bill by phone, we will interact with a talking computer to do so. Of course, this won’t happen until all the technology is in place, but when it is we will soon get used to interacting with computers in this way. Human telephone operators will be used only for more complex operations such as dealing with complaints or solving concrete problems.