Passwords are seriously becoming a problem

Passwords are quickly becoming a plague to interoperability. To often are people forgetting their passwords to various internet services due to auto-login. Just last year my wife and I set up an account on The Knot to organize our wedding. We both quickly became auto-logged into the site on our laptops. The one time I tried to get in on my phone was never successful because neither of us could guess at the password or the username for that matter. There is more than a couple internet services that I just automatically click "forgot password" on because it will take less time to reset my password via email then try and actually remember it. The problem is that every internet service has different rules to what is allowed as a password. Facebook connect is great if you are on your normal device. I read an article recently that predicted that passwords will soon be replaced my NFC style communication with a smartphone that will authorize the user via fingerprint. This can not come fast enough.....