>shop, store and share products. The analogue bar code that has for so >long been a dumb encrypted reference to a shopâs inventory system, will >be superseded by an open platform in which every object manufactured >will be able to be tracked from cradle to grave, through manufacturer to >distributor, to potentially every single person who comes into contact
great! more surveillance! >with it following its purchase. Further still, every object that comes >close to another object, and is within range of a reader, could also be >logged on a database and used to find correlations between owners and >applications. In a world that has relied upon a linear chain of supply >and demand between manufacturer and consumer via high street shop, the >Internet of Things has the potential to transform how we will treat >objects, care about their origin and use them to find other objects. If >every new object is within reach of a reader, everything is searchable >and findable, subsequently the shopping experience may never be the great! even more surveillance! >same, and the concept of throwing away objects may become a thing of the >past as other people find new uses for old things. Wow man, I'm glad all these technical boffins come up with such fantastic ideas... Just a pity the Wombles[1] beat them to it. [1] http://www.tidybag.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
