- What are the political and social implications of the new technologies and the methods of their consumption? E.g. moral panics etc?
There are various social implications of new technolgies and the methods of consumtion such as it creating a means for moral panic. This may be down to the fact that the technology is developing so quickly that consumers may not be able to keep up. An example of this is the introduction of contact-less payment, even with contact-less credit/debit cards, it is still not that mainstream and the fact that they are predicting that 50% of Visa transactions will be via a mobile device in 2020 suggests they are possible moving too fast before people are ready of familiar with it. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240177966/Boots-to-roll-out-contactless-payments-nationwide
The primary moral panic will be fear of fraud - which may be similar to when online banking was introduced.
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