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Consumption: the stainless smart card celebrates its 50th anniversary
The inventor of the smart card, Roland Moreno, is French. This invention is now celebrating its 50th anniversary, and seems to still have a bright future ahead of it.
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The inventor of the smart card, Roland Moreno, is French. This invention is now celebrating its 50th anniversary, and seems to still have a bright future ahead of it.
The smart card has revolutionized the daily life of the French. In the Vitale card, the transport pass, mobile phones and bank cards, the French people’s favorite means of payment, it is everywhere today. Used throughout the world, it was born from the genius of a Frenchman, 50 years ago: Roland Moreno, a self-taught inventor. Once the patent was filed in 1974, it was not until 1985 that the smart card took off in France.
Will it be replaced by dematerialized payments?
She also revolutionized telephone booths, something he was very proud of. “It’s very nice to see people in the street with my rectangular object that they bring into a cabin, and say I love you to their fiancé. I couldn’t dream of better”, he confided in 2000. After having dethroned the check, will it be replaced by dematerialized payments? This is the whole challenge of the coming years.
