Analyzing Radio Frequency Identification
Our team has chosen to explore Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, because this intriguing technology has recently advanced both technologically and socially. To help you understand the importance and the intricacies of RFID, our team will explain what radio frequency identification is and how it works, how it can and will be used, as well as the impact it is having on the world today. There are differing opinions on how RFID should be used and even whether it should be used at all. After seeing our presentation and reading our report, we hope we will have provided you with the necessary information to create an informed opinion.
What is RFID? RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification and is a term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. The most common method of identification is to store a serial number on a microchip that is attached to an antenna. An RFID transponder or an RFID tag is the chip and the antenna together. “The antenna s enables the chip to transmit the identification information to a reader. The reader converts the radio waves reflected back from the RFID tag into digital information that then can be passed on to computers that can make use of it” (www.rfidjournal.com). “Many of the largest manufacturing companies would like to replace the bar code with RFIDs meaning that virtually every item on the planet and the people wearing and carrying those items could be remotely tracked. There is currently no regulation protecting consumers from this technology” (www.spychips.com). What is the difference between passive and active tags? Active RFID tags have a transmitter and their own power source, which is typically a...
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Aviation and flight was thought of as nothing more than a toy World War 1 (WW1). However, this was the first war where aeroplanes were modified and used as weapons by countries to achieve an enormous advantage over their enemies. The first Great War encouraged rapid technological innovation in military aircraft, they quickly changed from their flimsy beginnings as fragile, slow moving gliders (see Fig 1.) into agile deadly fighter jets equipped with advanced weaponry such as missiles and machine guns to this present day. At the start of the war there were massive debates over the usefulness of aircraft in warfare, however, the initial campaigns proved that the cavalry could not provide the reconnaissance that was expected due to the dramatic increase in armour of the 20th century militaries.
Since the foundation of philosophy, every philosopher has had some opinion on free will in some sense, from Aristotle to Kant. Free will is defined as the agent's action to do something unimpeded, with many other factors going into it Many philosophers ask the question: Do humans really have free will? Or is consciousness a myth and we have no real choice at all? Free will has many components and is fundamental in our day to day lives and it’s time to see if it is really there or not.
The most famous series of experiments to empirically address the problem of free will were those conducted by Benjamin Libet and colleagues (Libet, Gleason, Wright, & Pearl, 1983; Libet, 1985). He analyzed the timing of conscious awareness of movement, and concluded that voluntary action begins with unconscious activity in the brain. Libet’s findings have been replicated in several more recent studies, such as those by Soon, Brass, Heinze, & Haynes (2008) and Bode, He, Soon, Trampel, Turner, Haynes (2011). Collectively, these results have almost conclusively determined that the conscious decision to act is preceded by unconscious neural action; however, the application of these findings to the problem of free will is still a subject of debate. To some experimental neuroscientists (Libet, 1985; Soon et al., 2008; Haggard, 2011; Fried, Mukamel, & Kreiman, 2011), these studies indicate that free will, or the conscious will ...
Part of the allure of the Internet has always been the anonymity it offers its users. As the Internet has grown however, causing capitalists and governments to enter the picture, the old rules are changing fast. E-commerce firms employ the latest technologies to track minute details on customer behavior. The FBI's Carnivore email-tracking system is being increasingly used to infringe on the privacy of netizens. Corporations now monitor their employees' web and email usage. In addition to these privacy infringements, Internet users are also having their use censored, as governments, corporations, and other institutions block access to certain sites. However, as technology can be used to wage war on personal freedoms, it can also be employed in the fight against censorship and invasion of privacy.
One of the first problems with Digital Angel and the Verichip is the sparseness of information relating to the technology. A quick tour of the Applied Digital Solutions’ Verichip website will give you a quick synopsis of what RFIDs are, and then list a few possible uses of the technology. The Frequently Asked Questions page on the website is equally shortchanged on information, with just a short tidbit on how the chips are installed, among other information. With a device that people will be living with for the rest of their lives (should they choose to bestow it upon them), I feel that many would rather have available detailed information on the technology. This is even more applicable when you consider the hostility that many people breed to technology that could lead to their mass surveillance (i.e. fear of conspiracy); many of these people’s concerns will likely be alleviated just by releasing more detailed info out on the web for the public to see.
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Free will is the term for a particular way of thinking in which an individual chooses to act or behave without exterior input from a variety of alternative actions (O’Connor, 2002). For example, if a person was waiting to cross the road, they have the ability to either wait until the green light signals
...try to ensure Internet security. More practically, marketers must try to target consumer groups more accurately. Minimizing unwanted consumer contacts may reduce the intensity and visibility of some dimensions of privacy issues. Last, marketing researchers must attempt to define privacy operationally. Much has been said and written about consumer privacy, but we still have little understanding of what information consumers consider private, why they consider it private, and whether this set of information changes situationally or in response to other factors.