BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.

So just explain a little bit more about how you see things going.

Maggie, I'd say it's highly likely within our lifetime that we will be a cashless society.

So no money, no money whatsoever.

Fiat currency by decree will still exist in just about the same way that it does now.

But I would say that it will almost entirely be digital.

And when it comes to spending that money,

are you envisaging that we will literally be carrying our computers into the shops?

The shops will be in the computers.

Most things will at some point.

You will browse for what you want on the information superhighway.

Well, that's my prediction anyway.

Now, I don't want you to think I'm being a bit of a Luddite, but I quite like seeing people when I go shopping. I like my greengrocer.

The Lydites make a good point. It wasn't about destroying technology for tradition's sake, which is the common mistake that people make.

Now, these advancements weren't made for the

betterment of society. They were there to make labour cheaper and more profitable for masters.

And it hasn't really changed ever since, and I doubt it ever will.

Well, I'm not sure. You see, if it wasn't built for war, it was built for profit, without any

thought for the livelihoods of the workers it might replace.

So, Maggie, grieve for your greengrocer because this is the ideal future for a lot of powerful people,

where humans are no longer social mammals, but angry, divided consumer units pushed to a point beyond compassion.

An interesting perspective.

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