. Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard's head of emerging payments, sat down with Austin Carr of Fast Company to discuss the future of credit cards. “We're rapidly moving to a world beyond plastic,” said McLaughlin. “In many ways, plastic is just convenient packaging.” The future of on-the-go payments may lie in the hands of near-field communication but unfortunately, adoption and availability have been extremely slow and limited. While NFC technology has been featured in a number of Android devices, MasterCard seems to think it won't go mainstream until an iPhone is equipped with the mobile payment solution.
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