RFID Lowdown explains to us that radiofrequency ID tagging is here to stay and you'd better damn well get used to it. Offering up 51 likely applications, the authors exhaustively frighten and enchant us with their vision of the future, lined as it is with tiny inductive strips of copper.
Scary deployments include tags embedded in every car and road surface to auto-fine speeders and take control of vehicles to prevent accidents; electromagnetic seals of approval on safe food when death and disease run rampant; and secretly placing loved ones under surveillance.
Also listed are nice things, like RFID postage stamps, soccer balls that know when a goal's beens scored, and high-tech banknotes. But hey, how often do you read news reports about planes landing safely?
Cool, Surprising and just Plain Scary: 51 Futuristic Uses for RFID [www.rfidlowdown.com]
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