Many services offer online safe deposit boxes, for example, where you can stow away the passwords to e-mail accounts and other data.
But with so many services coming online, the challenge will be in competing with companies that, while they may not have it all, they do have enough to get the job done.
Mobile wallets, like that of Paytm, have grown in popular in India, where credit card adoption is low and many services, including online retailers, process a lot of cash-based transactions.
The proliferation and sophistication of smartphones and tablets allow banks to offer many more services online.
He said he would do this in part by putting many government services online.
The government also is proposing to deliver many public services online by default with a target to have 80% of universal credit applications made online by 2017.
As governor of Jakarta, the post he held before assuming the presidency, he moved many government services online, depriving bribe-hungry bureaucrats of chances to extort backhanders.
A country can improve the lot of at least some of its citizens by selling services, as seen in the relative prosperity of Bangalore, India, which, among other activities, runs call centers and sells many programming services online.
Civil service reforms also suggest the industry is in for a big shake up, with plans to adapt to the digital market by providing many of their services online and encouraging staff to use social media platforms.
In this case, I quickly learned that there are many dish-replacement services online that will not only sell substitutes to match the broken teacup and the chipped creamer from your wedding pattern but also act as sleuths to help you hunt down the most obscure patterns imaginable.
