Notes from the Electronic Cottage 5/5/22: Digital Currency 1

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

There is a good bit of talk about digital currency these days, even to the point of replacing paper money all together and having a cashless economy. What might such a cashless economy be like, and is it something to welcome or fear? It’s probably a good idea to start thinking about that question because the topic is definitely a live one.

About the host:
Jim Campbell has a longstanding interest in the intersection of digital technology, law, and public policy and how they affect our daily lives in our increasingly digital world. He has banged around non-commercial radio for decades and, in the little known facts department (that should probably stay that way), he was one of the readers voicing Richard Nixon’s words when NPR broadcast the entire transcript of the Watergate tapes. Like several other current WERU volunteers, he was at the station’s sign-on party on May 1, 1988 and has been a volunteer ever since doing an early stint as a Morning Maine host, and later producing WERU program series including Northern Lights, Conversations on Science and Society, Sound Portrait of the Artist, Selections from the Camden Conference, others that will probably come to him after this is is posted, and, of course, Notes from the Electronic Cottage.