50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - RFID: The tech you’ve never heard of – but use every day

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Radio frequency identification - RFID - is the foundation on which many contactless technologies are built. But is it getting left behind amid the "internet of things"? Tim Harford argues its best days may still be to come.

Published on Monday, 29th July 2019.

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