The Future of Electronic Money

Authors: Maria E. de Boyrie, Darlene Nelson, James A. Nelson

Abstract:

The history of money is described in relationship to the history of computing. With the transformation and acceptance of money as information, major challenges to the security of money have involved engineering, computer science, and management. Research opportunities and challenges are described as money continues its transformation into information.

Keywords: Electronic, information, money, risk.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1080408

References:

[1] J. P. Barlow, "The economy of ideas," Wired, Issue 2.03, March, 1994.
[2] J. G. T. Salisbury and G. A. Barnett, The world system of international monetary flows: A network analysis," vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 31-49, Feb. 1999.
[3] M. Jakobsson and M. Yung, "Revokable and versatile electronic money," In 3rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 76-87, New Delhi, Mar. 1996.
[4] G. Davies, "Monetary innovation in historical perspective: Why revolution always boils down to evolution," Keynote address at the First Consult Hyperion Digital Money Forum 7th-8th October 1997, London, 1997.
[5] K. Hart, "Heads or tails? Two sides of the coin," Man, New Series, pp. 637-656, Vol. 21, No. 4 Dec. 1986.
[6] P. Ludlow (ed.), "High noon on the electronic Frontier: Conceptual issues in cyberspace," MIT Press, 1996.
[7] N. Kiyotaki and R. Wright, "A contribution to the pure theory of money," Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 215-235, Apr. 1991.
[8] M. R. Williams, A History of Computing Technology, 2nd Edition, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, April 1997.
[9] J. van den Ende and W. Dolfsma, "Technology-push, demand-pull and the shaping of technological paradigms - Patterns in the development of computing technology," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, Mar. 2005.
[10] J. A. N. Lee, ""Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it: or, Why I study the history of computing," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 54-62, 1996.
[11] M. S. Mahoney, "The history of computing in the history of technology," Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 10, pp. 113-125, 1988.
[12] G. Bell, "History of personal workstations," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on The history of personal workstations, pp. 1-17, 1986.
[13] M. C. McChesney, "Banking in cyberspace: an investment in itself," Spectrum, IEEE, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 54-59, Feb. 1997.