FAMILY
Generation games
With apps, money transfers and cards here to stay, our columnist considers the consequences of an increasingly cashless society
by MARK PALMER
Admittedly, it’s not the biggest of my worries, but I do wonder how my grandchildren will get on when it comes to learning sums at school. My generation – and those even older than me – were at an advantage because we had to deal with pounds, shillings and pence. This required some fairly complicated adding and subtracting, remembering that 12 pence made up a shilling and 20 shillings became a pound.