The End of Money
Speaker:
David Wolman
19 Sep 2013
8:00 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
A contributing editor at Wired and author of The End of Money, David Wolman shares how going cashless will affect the world, your wallet, and the retail, banking, and finance industries. His investigation into the future of money examined an array of virtual and alternative cashless currencies and technologies, including mobile-based banking systems. It also included a personal experiment of a year without cash. Wolman has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and Forbes. His other books include A Left-Hand Turn around the World and Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email. Greater Iowa Credit Union Business Lecture Series.
David Wolman's 2008 story for [i]Wired[/i] about how Egyptian activists used Facebook to mobilize against the Hosni Mubarak regime was one of the earliest pieces of long-form journalism about what would come to be known as the Arab Spring. That story evolved into "The Instigators," an e-book that was nominated for a 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting.
Wolman earned an MA in journalism from Stanford University and completed a Fulbright journalism grant in Sapporo, Japan.
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