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More on Talking Shopping Carts

Posted by michael on from the don't-forget-the-oreos dept.

ThosLives writes "CNN.com is reporting a story about Talking Shopping Carts. (I rue the day when viruses attack these carts, telling everyone to go buy Brand X). This article also has some interesting comments about possible (and likely inevitable) uses of RFID. I wonder, in the future, will I be able to buy anything with our new funny colored cash dollars?" We've mentioned these before.

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  1. Voting with your feet by poptones · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    This is not a new concept. And I don't just mean in the "love it or leave it" sense. The US has huge sums of disposable cash, which leads to markets being available for this sort of thing. But do you really think some poor nation that can barely feed its own people is going to see widespread adoption of this sort of tech?

    I live in the south. There are people here wouldn't live anywhere else no matter how rich the opportunity, simply because it's a decade behind down here and they LIKE it that way. So, if you're sick of the nonsense move to a rural area and avoid the local wallyworld. Of course, in a small town you have to worry about the neighbors snooping and gossiping... so which is worse?

    To those who say "tchnology will redefine privacy" I say get over your jingoistic self. No matter which side of the fence you ride on this issue, the fact is there's a lot more to the world (and to the notions of privacy) than lies within North America. Don't you think the people of N. Korea or Singapore already have a very different notion of "privacy" than we in the US?

    Did anyone say fifty years ago that "communism will redefine privacy as we know it?" And, even with all the handwaving and the witch hunts, did any of it really make a difference in the end? Communism crashed to the ground under its own immense weight... just as corporatism eventually will... just as any tyranical system eventually does.

    I guess I'm not saying "love it or leave it" but I am saying if you don't like the game, you can still find another field to play in. There's a whole world of them out there.