... and were afraid to ask!Or didn't know to ask!
Must reading indeed in last week's New York Times Circuits column by David Pogue, who explores not so much the past, but what the future holds for smart card technologies.
Take a look at how a contactless Smart Card works -- one small (maybe not so small) step forward from contact Smart Cards.
And that may be a time when we indeed have only one card -- or one gadget -- that contains all of the digital information we now need to carry with us today.
Don't miss it here.
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Indeed this article does paint a somewhat realistic picture of what a smart card looks like today.
The biggest hurdle so far is the excessive complication due to the requirements of the vertical markets. That's why, one can go on and on to discuss ID Card, Student Card, Transport Card, Payment Card while we shall be talking simply about Cards...
So will the inudstry sort out itself or will the smart card technology become obsolete before that. In fact related technologies have been employed in lot of other domains (ePassport, ePaper, intelligent clothing, mobile phone...)...