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ShaniFaye, I think there might also be a LOT of interpretations of that verse and a lot of them won't mean a cashless society.
It refers to a control system and doesn't refer to whether there is cash or not.
It only says that you cannot buy or sell unless you are 'registered' as it were.
Think of Internal Revenue and reporting all your business transactions with that in mind.
Another interpretation would be a particular monarch or leader that required all transactions to bear his/her symbol.
All cash transactions require official legal tender. The queen's face on all English money could be interpreted this way.
What about internet puchases?
Would institutions like Verisign fit this, where they permit trusted transactions to take place across the world, simply through their electronic 'mark'?
'Right hand' and 'Forehead' also have a very symbolic meaning aside from their literal meaning.
Right-hand man, take oath by raising your right hand, sword arm, voting hand, salute.
Both places are also where orthodox jewry stated the scrips be bound to remind those that pray of the law and the word of god.
I forget the official name for them. Think of those guys at the wailing wall.
With that in mind, your 'right-hand and forehead' could refer to those things that you hold dear, or the laws that you subject yourself to.
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