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...“Imagine that your life depended on completing a home construction project on time,” Susan Athey told the Planet Money podcast....
...The Barcode tells how in 1948 Philadelphia’s N....
...On his estimate, the number of barcode stickers — made of silicon, adhesive, paper and plastic — used on flights each year could be tagged “end to end 35 times around the planet....
...Technological innovations such as barcodes and satellite communications gave the retailer the tools it needed to construct a retail empire....
...Each downloadable Soundwalk mp3 retails for £8 (12€) – half the price of a Lonely Planet guidebook....
...Two factors have come together to assist the cautious customer: the ubiquitous barcode and the camera phone....
...Drastic, perhaps – but spare a thought for the convicts on the hostile prison planet that is the setting for Alien 3. They walk around with personalised barcodes tattooed on the backs of their necks....
...First, the entire UPC barcode system must be made open and available as a web service - a nontrivial event, to be sure....
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