Thanks for sharing this. Businesses in their rush to cut costs and exploit the next technology tend to forget or ignore one important factor: if the new technology presents more problems than benefits, consumers won't use it.
Early adopters might use a new technology, but most folks won't if the problems outweigh the benefits. Why? People buy benefits not new technology. A good example of this in play is credit/debit cards. Usage is down due to identity theft. So many consumers are using - surprise - cash or legal tender instead of plastic. (That's why you see the offers incenting consumers to use debit/credit plastic.) Same goes for RFID plastic, too, whether or not the end-of-times happens. I've lived for over a decade without a Mobil/Exxon speed pass... and can happily continue to do so. Instead, Exxon should worry about us consumers that still boycott their products due to the Valdez spill. George --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "brent wodehouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70308-0.html > RFID: Sign of the (End) Times? > By Mark Baard > Mar, 02, 2006 EST > > CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Katherine Albrecht is on a > mission from God. > > The influential consumer advocate has written a new > book warning her fellow Christians that radio frequency > identification may evolve to become the "mark of the beast" > - meaning the technology is a sign that the end-times are > drawing near. > > "My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm," said > Albrecht, in a conversation over tea at a high-end grocery > store. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
