Bringing Futures Literacy to the Future of Money

Cash Essentials has issued a report, ‘The Role of Cash in the Future Monetary Landscape’. Based on a Futures Literacy Lab hosted by Cash Essentials in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair for the Future of Finance at Ecole des Ponts Business School, in September 2022. The paper lays out how a Futures Literacy Lab works and seeks to understand the future of money.

The nature of money

The paper lays out the challenge facing cash and of trying to imagine future payments. It makes the point that money is not, and never has been, constant. It continues to evolve with the current digitisation phase being but one part of a continuum of change. Despite the diversification of form, there is an underlying continuity of functions of the different components of the monetary landscape.