But he does occasionally need to swat your bottom...
Were that the case, I would expect to see pillars of salt all over the place.
And a lot more lightning strikes picking individuals out of a crowd (or off certain pulpits).
The difficulty is going to be getting software for POS systems that accept money from my virtual wallet.
There are still a lot of retailers whose POS won't accept chip-n-pin, 3 or 4 years after it was introduced here.
Also, I don't think anyone will be in a hurry to jump on this bandwagon if there are multiple, non-compatible "standards" out there.
And there's this too:
I don't need Google or PayPal taking their cut.
Sure, some life forms have adapted, but is that good design, or just survival of the best parts?
That sounds more like evolution in action than anything else.
Survival of the fittest.
not that it's a great idea to be (inadvertently or intentionally) creating environments nasty enough to need evolution to be part of the survival strategy.
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke