Radio Tag Debut Set for This Week. A retail trade group will debut the bar code's successor this week in Chicago. Privacy advocates will be there to protest the controversial radio-tagging technology scheme. By Mark Baard. [Wired News]

There's a good chance that Radio tags will have a profound effect on the world. They've been associated with indoor Location Based Services. If everything has one of these RFID tags instead of Barcoads, which are pretty ubiquitos. You would be able to catalog everything around you effortlessly. If I wanted to know where my copy of The Chronic was, I could just ask my computer, ping the RFID and it would tell me, "I'm kicking it in the basement".

Of course, I'd go down there to get it only to find an empty CD case, but that's my own issue.

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