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RFID: The Next Internet?

Posted by Hemos on from the distributed-communication-an-internet-does-not-make dept.

An anonymous reader writes "RFID Journal has an artricle about how an open source foundation is creating a new Internet based on RFID tags. 'The founders [RadioActive Foundation] liken the EPCglobal Network as a whole to the Internet, with RFID tags acting as URLs, and the tags' associated data being the Web site for that tag . The software the foundation develops, Michael Mealling adds, will act similarly to an Internet search engine. With Discovery Service software, for example, companies will be able to search for an RFID tag without requiring connected links between each point of the tag's travels.' Pretty neat concept, probably decades away."

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  1. 2000 is calling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    they want their CueCat back.

  2. OH NOES!!! by Xaroth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now they'll be able to track where our INTERNETS are! From now on, I'm wrapping my internets in tinfoil.

    Anyone got millions of miles of tinfoil I could borrow? Getting the first one wrapped is going to take a while.

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  3. Yes, but... by should_be_linear · · Score: 4, Funny

    will it finally solve missing socks phenomenon?

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  4. Woo! by Poromenos1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I will be able to google for my keys? I always seem to misplace them...

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  5. At Last by CleverNickedName · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean we'll be able to slashdot an actual RFID tag?

    Cool.

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  6. Marketing Hype by StateOfTheUnion · · Score: 3, Funny
    liken the EPCglobal Network as a whole to the Internet, with RFID tags acting as URLs, and the tags' associated data being the Web site for that tag

    This sounds like a press release from the .com glory days . . . mindless banter that uses some fancy buzzwords (Internet, RFID, URLs, Website) in hopes that unsuspecting folks won't realize that this analogy is poor at best, blatantly wrong at worst.

    I could use the same analogy for my house. The house is the internet, each power outlet is a URL and each appliance's use of electrical current is the associated data for that website. Now with a bunch of multimeters, I have an "internet."

    Analogies in the hands on the misinformed are a very dangerous thing.