The birth, use, and spread of magnetic cards had taken less than a few months. By today, they had already become something people could not live without.
Buying something? Just swipe! Entering or leaving a restricted public place?
Just swipe! Even giving a child some pocket money or sending money to someone else only required a swipe!
They were like super "electronic checks," except they had far more functions and applications than electronic checks.
It was precisely because they were convenient, safe, and reliable that they were rapidly becoming an indispensable part of Federal life.
Even crimes such as theft and robbery had decreased significantly because magnetic cards had become so widespread! When some idiot held a gun to a poor fool's head and demanded that the poor fool transfer money into his account, he would never have imagined that he had personally handed the authorities enough evidence to put himself away.
The same went for theft. People used to carry cash, but now many of them carried cards.
Magnetic cards had login passwords and payment passwords. Some of the wealthier people even had multiple passwords.
Even if someone stole such a thing, it was useless, because they could not take a single cent from it!
Many people were fanatically devoted to magnetic cards. It was not the kind of fanaticism associated with faith, but rather a fervor resembling worship, born from excessive convenience.
They recommended things they found useful to those around them, urging others to use magnetic cards as well. In fact, they did not receive any benefits from Wealth Bank.
These people would also occasionally swipe their cards at magnetic-card terminals just for fun, checking whether anything had changed in their accounts or whether Wealth Bank and Global Communication Group had added any new features.
Today, when