The future of money (1976)
I love how this got internet banking almost spot on, but got internet shopping interestingly wrong: they still assumed you'd do it in a shopping mall
A look into the future
Is this what a shopping arcade will be like in the future?On the ground floor, on the far right, there is an automatic drive-in bank. A man in a car is checking the state of his bank account.
Just inside the building but still on the ground floor, people are push-button shopping. They can see the goods for sale projected on the screens above them. By pressing the right buttons they can order the goods they want.
Having chosen their purchases, shoppers travel up the automatic stairway to pay for them. The man on the right is trying to decide which credit card he would like to use, while the woman in the centre has just discovered that she has no money left in her account. No wonder she looks so faint! The two assistants supporting her shrug their shoulders: they have seen it all before.
In the background, information about the movement of different currencies is being flashed onto electronic boards. And everywhere the computers are whirling, storing and transferring information.
Meanwhile, in the top left-hand corner, a man is sitting comfortably at home. He is studying his bank account which is being flashed onto his own television screen. By pressing the control button in his hand he can see exactly on what he has spent his money.
From Money, Richard Redden, Macdonald Educational (publishers), 1976