In 10 years time

fake coins..save them for parking meters where they belong.

seriously under £1 ..never seen one ( real ones look fake any way..steel )

£1 it is reckoned 10 to 30 % duff in circulation.

The notes in the NZ currency have been plastic for a number of years now, OK if you put them through the washing machine, just don't iron them, they shrivel up. Ian S C

In the workshop..

Possibly more 3D printers & laser cutters. I'm not convinced there are any other industrial technologies that are looming on the horizon that will have made the transition to the Home Workshop in 10 years. Now, in 50 years maybe we'll all have nano fabricators and will be able to manufacture organic materials simply using the air as our source of raw materials.

The biggest problem to my eyes is the rapid retreat of the UK population from anything that is awkward, requires concentration, time and personal skills. Most people seem to be determined to turn themselves into passive consumers as fast as possible, then whinge about it on their social network of choice.

Regards,

Richard

Richard..aye

the desire to make a killing not a living...

Thing are really bad when you get rubber money, it was bad enough getting rubber cheques.

Dave

Dave, they are definitely not worth much these days, The Austrailian's, and a number of other countries also have the plastic bank notes. Ian S C

Money could be almost be gone in ten years. Soon the only reason for having it will be to avoid leaving a trail and TBTB will try to ban it.

Having said that, I have assured the future of real money, just like everything else they said would die: not least cheques, writing paper, vinyl records and imperial threads...

Neil

Money could be almost be gone in ten years. Soon the only reason for having it will be to avoid leaving a trail and TBTB will try to ban it.

Even when a local currency collapses people quickly turn to an alternative

In Zimbabwe people switched to US dollars and South African Rand

In places like Cyprus and Argentina (and the old USSR) millions of people know that the Government can dip into your bank account any time they fancy and the only truly safe easily exchanged money you can possess is cash

People in Argentina went to bed on Friday with US$1000 in a bank account and woke up on Monday with 1000pesos in their account, courtesy of the government

Edited By Ady1 on 12/10/2013 12:08:05

I wish I'd bought lots of scrap copper and ally years ago instead of giving money to the licensed robbers.

In 10 years, we may see magnetic projection sintered castings. Ie, iron powder would be held in a magnetic shape, and fused together in a 'super microwave'