Electronic Value Exchange Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System /

• Main Author: Stearns, David L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer software > Reusability.; Computer communication systems.; Application software.; Computers.; Computers and civilization.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Computer Communication Networks.; Performance and Reliability.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Although those born after the 1990s might never have known a time without them, payment cards and the electronic and computing networks they activate went through an explicit process of creation and adoption—a process which actively shaped these ubiquitous systems into what they are today. To unders...