MIT to uncork futuristic bar code

A group of academics and business executives is planning to introduce next month a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace with a microchip the series of black vertical lines found on most merchandise.

The so-called EPC Network, which has been under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nearly five years, will make its debut in Chicago on Sept. 15, at the EPC Symposium. At that event, MIT researchers, executives from some of the largest global companies, and U.S. government officials intend to discuss their plans for the EPC Network and invite others to join the conversation.

The attendee list for the conference reads like a who's who of the Fortune 500: Colgate-Palmolive, General Mills, GlaxoSmithKline, Heinz, J.C. Penney, Kraft Foods, Nestle, PepsiCo and Sara Lee, among others. An official from the Pentagon is scheduled to speak, along with executives from Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and United Parcel Service.

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This is the kind of stuff American corporations should be doing insteand of supporting Bush, in the slaughter of thousands of innocent people, to get a few tax breaks and labor law charges. Shame on you Corporations! But I think God will have a few stiffer punishments in store for you; than my verbal abuse!

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the government will literally be able to track every single product you purchase down to the serial number of the product. oh boy doesnt that sound great?

keys and glasses. It would save at least 15 minutes of my time each morning.

:-)

...the dog, of course.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Too bad that something which is a boon for tracking materiel, also tracks people (who are deluged with materiel). The old two-edged technology bind.

it sounds to me like it is.

now imagine every coin and bill you use has one of these tags.

your credit cards, too.

your shoes, your clothes, your eyeglasses.

now imagine that there's a reader built into every stoplight, every utility pole...

get the picture?

so I don't think they could put an electronic device on it and And anyway I don't like tags in my cloths so when I buy them and take them home Icut them out People can just do that to products with the epc on them. But I am opposed to anything that could fringe upon mine or anyone else's prvacy rights. Credit card can be tracked when you use them. :bounce: