Article: International Travel Totally Relies on Physical Passports: Is There a Better Way?

[Chicken]

There are thousands of banks in the world, but we can all take our ATM cards somewhere else and take money out from some other unrelated bank. All because of 2 standardised network: Visa and MC

Right now, forget chip, even a magnetic stripe card would be better than a paper passport

 

[SYD]

There are thousands of banks in the world, but we can all take our ATM cards somewhere else and take money out from some other unrelated bank. All because of 2 standardised network: Visa and MC

Right now, forget chip, even a magnetic stripe card would be better than a paper passport

Most PPs these days are biometric chip enable, so arguably more advanced than a regular CC/DC. It just happens to be in a book that can have physical stamps and visas - which is the main reason why we won’t migrate to anything different for a very long time.