Soon everyone will be sporting one more device crammed into their phones. RFID reader technology has reached the stage where it can be incorporated into cell phones.
See: MoreRFID Gentag to Piggyback on NFC Technology to Read RFID Sensors
The RFID enabled phone will read tag information in a product the phone will pull info from an RFID product database on the web and link to a website with detailed product info.
Why do you want it?
Immediate uses:
manufacturing and shipping history
detailed nutritional info
product comparisons
Later uses:
Through your phone you will be able to easily purchase stuff.
Your phone will download your grocery list from your smart appliances
and then automatically update your inventory as items are purchased. Manufacturers will be able to apply instant coupons through your phone.
RFIDorgs will be able to transfer calling card info easily since they can link their RFID data to an RFID database for downloading info such as the location of a blogsites.
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There IS, however, Charles, a more insidious, Orwellian side (certainly potential) of RFIDs. See Katherine Albrecht & Liz McIntyre, Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move (Penguin/Plume, 2006). When powerful institutions can track a person’s every move and every purchase, what becomes of privacy, not to mention the clear threat to liberty of totalitarian abuse. I perplexes (if not, indeed, appalls) me that most transhumanists seem either not to be aware (or afraid) of potential Orwellian/totalitarian implications of emerging tech (including but not limited to RFID tech), or naively downplay such tech being abused by ultra powerful transnational instutions and/or government(s). I urge you and our colleagues to visit Katherine Albrecht’s website, http://www.spychips.com/ for more info.
Ciao…
The grammar/diction module in my feeble brain went on holiday a bit in the previous post: Some corrections: What is to become of both privacy and liberty if RFID tech is used for totalitarian purposes? And: I’m both perplexed and downright appalled that my fellow up-wingers are not more concerned and vocal about these particular issues. (Forgive me, Charles…)
Nokia have had this for a while, just probably not in mass production. I went to an Australian Supply chain conference in 2005 where a futurologist was touting this as a tool of price transparency.
Some have also suggested that the phone could embed your credit card and One Time Password (OTP) device allowing you to pay for things, and log into applications securely.
Who would have thought that 15 years ago when mobile phones were a tool only for the rich, that they would be a commodity for the masses, to buy, authenticate, and compare !
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