. .. . .When Bill Gates say that China is developing a 'new form of
capitalism' he is not wrong. To borrow from Betancourth: China is
adapting to globalization by evolving a 'bar-code society':
production planning will communicate with markets constantly and
immediately. Factories will maintain zero stock, and commodities will
be produced just in time according to the present demand of the
existing markets. This model thus involves not simply a more rapid
feedback loop but an inversion of the relationship because, at least
in theory, the production decision actually comes after and in
reaction to the market decision. In the most extreme cases the
commodity is not produced until the consumer has already chosen and
purchased it. In general, however, it would be more accurate to
conceive the model as striving toward a continual interactivity or
rapid communication between production and consumption. This
industrial context provides a first sense in which communication and
information have come to play a newly central role in production. One
might say that instrumental action and communicative action have
become intimately interwoven in the informationalised industrial
process, but one should quickly add that this is an impoverished
notion of communication as the mere transmission of market data.
http://gregwalton.civiblog.org/blog/_archives/2005/7/15/1033319.html
On 8 Nov 2005, at 23:13, Anthony Townsend wrote:
btw, thisis a great blog that summarizes RFID news in Japan - they
are really moving ahead with deployments in that country
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http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/004380.html
"FUTURE BOOKSTORE" OPENS -- ALL BOOKS RFID'D
Jinbo-cho is a district in Tokyo, which people call a "bookstore
town." A new bookstore, whose books are all RFID-tagged, opened in
Jinbo-Cho on October 12. Nikkei calls it a "Future Bookstore."
The actual name of the bookstore is Book House Jinbo-Cho and is
operated by Showa-Tosho, who is a distributor of Shogakkan Group.
For the moment, the shop doesn't care so much about ROI etc. Sounds
like they just want to test RFID in a real retail environment.
via Nikkei RFID Technology, October 12, 2005
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