Imagine a world with no banks

[Mcpit]

http://barnabyisright.com/2013/04/27/imagine-a-world-with-no-banks/

[Manawarp]

Bitcoin doesn't exactly meet those criteria.

[tom78587]

I think banks will fight bitcoin usage heavily.

[Leonidas1]

Wallet services have already started to spring up all over the web. Banks need to evolve or die.

[Achiron]

hard to say how they'll react to bitcoin

[spiderJ]

The sooner the banks are gone the better. I've spent too much of my fiat on bank charges/fees/bailouts

[51ay3r]

We will always need banks for financial services: loans, mortgages, etc.  Establishing decentralized ones with BTC may be interesting however.

[xavier83]

We will always need banks for financial services: loans, mortgages, etc.  Establishing decentralized ones with BTC may be interesting however.

I believe ripple does exactly that. I am not sure though. any thoughts?

[abxexp]

I fail to see why any of that would happen. As 51ay3r pointed out there will always be a need, albeit with a different name.