If you thought India's decision to ban 86% of its cash was ambitious, wait until you hear what it may do next. 

 

如果你认为印度禁止全国86%现金流通的决定是野心勃勃的，请听完他们下一步的计划再做评价。

 

The head of a government-run policy institute said on Thursday that the country could completely eliminate the need for credit cards, debit¹ cards and ATMs in the next three years by switching to biometric payments. 

 

Amitabh Kant said that even electronic payment methods may be "totally redundant²" by 2020. Instead, all Indians will need for transactions is their thumb or eye. 

 

"Each one of us in India will be a walking ATM," Kant said at the World Economic Forum³ in Davos. That would represent "the biggest technological⁴ leapfrogging ever in the history of mankind," he added. 

 

Arundhati Bhattacharya, head of the State Bank of India, agreed that such a dramatic shift was possible. 

 

"This is something that's eminently⁵ doable," she said, pointing out that nearly 1.1 billion of India's 1.3 billion people have already registered their biometric data under the government's unique identification program.

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