The money is accessed through their mobile phones, with M-Pepea sending a special pin code to be used in cash machines.
He also pointed to a proposal in the House "to make sure government agencies don't turn cell phones of Americans into tracking devices" as another target for NSA reformers.
"We put our phones and iPads upstairs and then I went round and turned absolutely everything off at the socket, apart from the fridge-freezer and the smart energy monitor.
Only their personal effects remain: passports, identity cards, mobile phones, bank notes and bleached photographs of family groups.
The announcement of the Nobel prize in chemistry follows on Wednesday, with a China-US duo – Ching Tang and Steven van Slyke – cited as potential winners for the invention of the organic light-emitting diode, used in a range of gadgets including mobile phones.
"The figures clearly show that people are consuming the news on their mobile devices, phones in particular, but I don't see print disappearing completely".
Then he phones his schools and asks for today's attendance figures.
"First he phones round his stores and asks for yesterday's trading figures.
Instead Gove sneers at them, undermines them, devalues their professionalism, and saves his praise for the millionaire who graciously allows his name to appear on the school gates, and phones up in the morning to ask what the attendance figures are – but not until he has phoned round his stores and checked the previous day's sales figures.
People started shouting into their recovered mobile phones and arguing with flirtatious waitresses – and I realised then that I hadn't really heard a raised voice or seen a non-Korean face for over a week.
"If we can create a platform that understands the main interests of consumers – such as films, food, clothing brands – then local retailers can send out targeted messages to people's mobile phones as they walk past," he says.
