[2016-09-27] BS: What if 'one click' buying were internet-wide?

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What if 'one click' buying were internet-wide?

http://www.business-standard.com/article/international/what-if-one-click-buying-were-internet-wide-116092700011_1.html

Responding to the frustrations of Berners-Lee and hundreds of millions of online shoppers, the web's governing body, the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, has brought together the giants of the internet including Google, Facebook and Apple to fix the clumsiness of paying for things online.

But the bigger goal behind the W3C project is to create a standard, seamless and secure way to pay for things electronically in a future that will most likely include virtual reality stores, chat-based transactions and machines making payments to other machines (an autonomous car paying for a parking spot, for instance).

The standard will also make it easy to include new payment methods like Bitcoin or the Chinese payment provider Tencent.