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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Turning ATMS into automated thinking machines
"Who said the ATM had to be relegated to financial services? How about an ATM that collects e-Waste? Instead of inserting checks into the machine, you would insert your old electronics and receive a digital receipt. Or how about filling your medical prescriptions via ATM? Trendhunter recently profiled 12 awesome ATMs – some of them so outlandish that they would appear to be science fiction - like slang-speaking ATMs.
Building on the vision for the Bank of the Future and the notion of the digitally-connected ATM, financial services firms have an opportunity to transform the ATM into something much more than we could ever imagine. Once plastic cards and cash become obsolete, what will happen to the ATM? By that time, the ATM has the potential to evolve into an Automated Thinking Machine, available 24/7 to anybody who happens to be in the neighborhood."
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I hate how often this word is used by politicians, but *drumrolls*-innovation!
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Imagine a stop and go doctors ATM...MONEY!
ReplyDeletelol pun intended on the "money". Can you elaborate on a doctors ATM please?
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