RFIDs and the Dawning Micro Monitoring Revolution ...

From RFIDS AND THE DAWNING MICRO MONITORING REVOLUTION, Congressional Record: March 23, 2004 (Senate), Page S2989-S2990 ...

... "RFID chips are like supercharged barcodes--barcodes on steroids, if you will. They are so small they can be tagged onto almost any object. They do not have to be in open view; RFID receivers just have to be within the vicinity--at a security checkpoint, in a doorway, inside a mailbox, atop a traffic light. And RFID chips can carry a lot more information than barcodes. Some versions are recordable so that they can carry along the object's entire history. RFID chips are more powerful than today's video surveillance technology. RFIDs are more reliable, they are 100 percent automatic, and they are likely to become more pervasive because they are significantly less expensive, and there are many business advantages to using them. RFIDs seem poised to become the catalyst that will launch the age of micro-monitoring." ...