With the arrival of easily accessible credit cards, debit cards and Internet banking, today's world is often referred to as being a "cashless society". These technological arrivals have led to a dramatic change in the way that businesses and people operate. In some instances, we can argue that our cashless society has resulted in a steady decline in the occurrence of human interaction. This author believes that In some cases, we should go back to the old ways of buying our goods with paper money or the old art of providing written cheques.



The concept of using ‘real' money or cheque writing is often not a popular one with many people. We cannot deny that the arrival of this new and exciting technology has increased the ease of how people operate and perform business. It has eradicated the need to physically write your name or long winded explanations of what the finance is required for.

Technology has allowed for all of this information to be transferred electronically via the specific information that is encoded in an individuals debit or credit card. This new technology although in some cases is beneficial, can sometimes lead to forms of individual isolation within our inter communication, business and financial operations. Financial and personal affairs begin to become depersonalized and individuals can become labeled and known as a number. Some people could argue that this is beneficial as it ensures that our dealings continue to move at a sustainable pace.

Today's world places its importance on the provision of convenience and instant satisfaction. We can see that this is evident with the invention of frozen dinners and meal replacement beverages. We now have mobile phones which double as organizers, alarm clocks, cameras, mp3 players and as a way to easily access our emails and the Internet. Many people argue that society needs to be time savvy if it wants to successfully achieve its ambitions. In some instances this author agrees with this. New technology has resulted in many seeing the art of filling in a cheque as a time consuming affair that should be avoided at all costs. Many would prefer to have very little or even nothing to do with the entire process of writing a cheque. These individuals see cheque writing as a distinct and unnecessary form of art. These people have chosen for the option of cheque writing to be removed from their financial options. They see cheque writing as a form of old technology and a way financing in the past. Writing cheques, we say, has no place in our future and will be left behind with our distant memories of items like records, cassette tapes and roller skates.

The creativity involved in writing a cheque will never fail for some people in today's world. But for others, their interests lie in convenience and time management, perhaps this is correctly so, and other instruments to pay for items and obtain finances over ride the old art form of writing a cheque.