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From a slow start in 1967, the global popularity of the machines that dispense currency notes seems to defy predictions of a cashless society. Professor Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, an expert in banking history at Bangor University in Wales, tells the Â鶹Éç's Russell Padmore what drove banks to introduce Automated Teller Machines in Sweden and the UK in 1967. (Picture: ATM in operation. Dennis Macdonald/Getty.)