50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
RFID: The tech you’ve never heard of – but use every day
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3 August 2019
10 minutes
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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.
