RFID: The tech you’ve never heard of – but use every day
Radio frequency identification - RFID - is the foundation on which many contactless technologies are built. But is it getting left behind amid the "internet of things"? Tim Harford argues its best days may still be to come.
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Martin Vennard "Leon Theremin: The man and the music machine" 13 March 2012 - ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
Bill Glover and Himanshu Bhatt, RFID and Infrastructures of Identification - O'Reilly: Sebastopol CA 2006
Jordan Frith A Billion LittleÌýPieces: RFID and Infastructures of Identification - MIT Press, CambridgeÌý2019
"Privacy Not Included: Vibratissimo Panty Buster"Ìý - Mozilla Foundation
Shoshana Zuboff "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Profile" - London 2019
Bruce Sterling "The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things - Strelka Press, Moscow
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