Will Smart Card Payment (e-Wallet) become popular in America in 2008?

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Smart cards with contactless interfaces are becoming increasingly popular for payment and ticketing applications such as mass transit. Visa and MasterCard have agreed to an easy-to-implement version currently being deployed (2004-2006) in the USA. Obviously smart cards are not widely adopted here yet. The smart card systems like Octopus in HK and EZ-Link in Singapore have completely changed everyone paying habit. Will we experience the same change in N.America in 2008?

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	ZiiValue (chance)	MyAnswer (which outcome happened?)	Possible Outcomes
	17%	Ya smart card payment dictates	Ya smart card payment dictates
	83%	No we stick with the ways now	No we stick with the ways now

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