Pay with Square

The future has arrived, Jack Dorsey says

by M.B. Lewis

posted 10/21/2012

Jack Dorsey, the thirty-five-year-old co-founder of both Twitter and the smartphone-based payment system Square, doesn't simply envision a post-plastic world of commerce. He says he lives it every day in San Francisco, where he walks into cafes and restaurants with his phone in his back pocket wirelessly transmitting his photo-linked "Pay with Square" account details to cashiers, who then charge his tab. "The future has already arrived," Dorsey told an auditorium of 200 U-M students in September. "Our challenge now is distributing the future

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