http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1/cts?d=75-105-1-1-618817-4347-1
The issue of Radio Frequency Identification devices has already aroused a storm of ontroversy, as noted in earlier remarks in this blog. Like any other technology, there is a 'right way' and a 'wrong way', and the corporate take on this may not be the correct one. This article suggests some guidelines for RFID implementation, which itself is one of the ways 'we will make the world smart', and is probabaly therefore inevitable -- but we might as well get it right.
That the sailing is not completely smooth on this electronic sea can be gauged by this account of Wal-Mart's problems with RFID:
http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1/cts?d=75-105-1-1-618817-4350-1
On the other hand, if the army of the USA is enthusiastic about this technology, it can't be all bad:
http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1/cts?d=75-105-1-1-618817-4344-1
A more balanced examination of this technology is provided in this report from Harvard on a conference which discussed RFID issues:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3879&sid=-1&t=special_reports_cyber2004
Posted by jho at December 17, 2003 10:36 AM