Originally Posted by
sdsearch
So exactly what aspect of the credit/debit card
that is technology do you expect to be disrupted?

I don't have any specific expectations of what disruption would look like...
It could be as incremental as a new credit card issuer (i.e. similar to the rapid emergence of Capital One in the 1990s) with a better customer-facing experience and UX. Something similar to what Bank Simple (
www.simple.com) is doing now with debit and "card as an app" but for credit.
It could be as complex as developing an entirely new closed-loop payment network to compete against the likes of Amex/Discover that could do away with the bulky 16-digit card number system that was never designed for online payment in an increasingly online world.
It could be an entirely new consumer credit product with a completely different structure and terms than traditional revolving credit lines that gives the other half of America that would otherwise revolve a little more breathing room.
Or maybe we'll be paying with our elbows in 10 years.