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Quick listing some top predictions & my take on right/wrong Iran will Change : I’ll call it NO RFID-Everything : Basically NO… not in consumer-land, at least

by netcan 7y ago

Quick listing some top predictions & my take on right/wrong Iran will Change : I’ll call it NO RFID-Everything : Basically NO… not in consumer-land, at least Cheap Flat Panel Displays : YES Ubiquitous & Wireless/Mobile: YES Ebooks Take Over & Pirates Win: NO. Surprisingly, the opposite happened. monolithic legal markets did really well. Electric Cars Event Horizon: ALMOST Driverless Cars Go Live: NO. Still No Fusion Power: CORRECT MSFT Declines: NO Chinese Bubble Burst: NO Lady Gaga is New Madonna: Yes. Good call! Google will Change for Worst: CORRECT on the moral point. INCORRECT on the financial one Pension Bomb Problems: No Habitable Planet Found: PROBABLY, but we don’t know which one it was. Data Mining Political Watershed: YES.

rjsw 7y ago
> RFID-Everything : Basically NO… not in consumer-land, at least Contactless payment systems grew out of RFID, I would categorize that as a YES.
- netcan 7y ago
  Ok, I'll call it a yes. Payments didn't come to mind. I guess contactless payment just didn't seem important to me, so I forget about it. Nifty, sure but blink and you miss it.
  - rjsw 7y ago
    I'm guessing that you don't live in Europe.
    - netcan 7y ago
      Actually do. Ireland. I do use it every day, and tapping is better than chip-n-pin. I barely remember scanning. But ultimately, it's not a huge change.