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In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
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In this week's programme...
BEYOND THE BAR CODE
The simple bar code stuck on every item revolutionised stock keeping and baggage handling. But it may soon be replaced by a cheap and cheerful radio transmitter identity tag for everything we use. Peter Day examines the promises and the pitfalls of a world held together by wireless.
At the superrmarket checkout, we know how much the beeping barcode reader has speeded up the process of adding up the weekly shopping bill, which used to be entered or added up by hand.
But the barcode is now 30 years old, is nothing compared with the next big step in the retail supply chain. The experts say that in the near future, billions, no trillions of items will be tagged with their own tiny radio transmitter that will be able to report where the product in question is hiding every step of the journey from maker to retailer, into the home, into the trash can. It's called Radio Frequency Identification, alias RFID, nobody has yet worked out a limit to its benefits and its uses, if the price is right.
Contributors:
Kevin Ashton
Auto ID Center at MIT
Phil Clark
Tesco
Geoff O' Neill
Woolworths
Barry Hugill
Liberty
Martin Swerdlow
Integrated Product Intelligence
Dr Mike Murphy
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Andrew Dyckhoff
Olympus Medical
Callum Moy
Unisys
Peter Jones
Hitachi Europe
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