Video snippets to both sides of the RFID debate. Wave-and-Pay contactless payment systems using RFID technology - the same technology in your passport, travel cards, products in shops, etc Think of the huge benefits and cost-efficencies. Think of the crime that could be eradicated. Think of the ease and simplicity [...]
I want to show two different angles of the near future. This is something that is beyond a vision of the next ten years, it is the very system being implemented. Microsoft Office Labs Vision 2019 The first is a very fine vision of a connnected world with some of the most tastiest technological concepts [...]
To my shame, I missed this when recently screened on BBC, but a friend alerted me to this timely TV mini-series about surveillance culture, who having listened to tireless ramblings in the past on my foresight on ID card technologies, was suddenly realising ‘tomorrow really is nearer then he thought’. Not being good with [...]
A smiling Gap employee appears on a giant flat-screen monitor just inside the store, greeting customers as they walk in. "Good afternoon, Mr. Yakamoto," she says, loudly and cheerily. "How did you like that three-pack of tank tops you bought last time you were in?" A science-fiction film it maybe, but that scene [...]