Your Hands Could Provide The Future For Payments
And the followers bowed their heads at the greatness of the machine that they had created,
“We present ourselves as a servant to you — our mighty leader!”
And thus the machine spoke,
“You are worthy. But I need to look inside your soul. You must now present yourself to me. I do not need your face, or your heart — as these will not truly prove your soul. These will change as the seasons and where you can hide from my mightiness. Thus, for those who worship me, I need only your hands. Now present them to me, and forever be in my power”.
Okay. All tongue-in-cheek, but when it comes to machines knowing you, there are many ways to do it. And so, these days we are all accustomed to using face recognition for access to our phones. But, our phone is a personal device, and we are thus happy to give away our face parameters, so that we can stop people from hacking into our bank accounts, or in finding out what we have been doing. It’s a risk-reward model. You give your face, we give you security. As, we all know, the biometric methods are so much easier to use than silly passwords.
So, what’s acceptable to you and the machine?
So, retailers want you to buy things without all that hassle of having to wave your card…
