On the unbearable tyranny of plastic credit cards

Where Apple leads, payment wristbands ready to tap 'wearables' boom | Reuters

""People want to tell their payment provider how they want to pay and not be told in the traditional way of 'here's your plastic, now get on with it'," said Howard Berg, senior vice president at Gemalto."

People, according to this story, apparently prefer wristbands to credit cards because, says one Ben Wood, an analyst at a company called CCS Insight, one’s wrist is "a very socially accepted place to wear something."

Righto.