Robert Liebman Journalism |
In the biometric era—with equipment that can identify us by our ears or our odour—what does the future hold for plain old magnetic-stripe credit cards?
Business Life, February 1997 |
"But what if it’s your job to protect a president or prime minister or monarch (not forgetting the 1982 incident in which an intruder breached Buckingham Place, located Her Majesty’s bedchamber, and enjoyed a cosy if brief chat with the Monarch)? In other words, what about circumstances in which even a smartcard is too dumb?" |
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Blackberry came, but would it conquer Britain as it did America - or was it a few years too late? ReutersCity |
"A whole new generation of electronic devices is being developed to monitor access to, and movement within, the workplace. But they also conjure up a disturbing vision of an Orwellian future." Human Resources magazine |
Push technology, websites, email - commonplace today but revolutionary when they first appeared, and many companies were clueless. Revolution magazine |