Mark Anderson, a technology futurist, thinks that RFID and RFID-related technologies have opened a huge new area:

"Radio Frequency Identification [RFID, which are electronic tags used to track goods within the supply chain], and RFID-related technologies have opened a huge new area. All the people who run warehouses are going to have real-time information about what's inside, which they don't actually have today.

The definition of what a warehouse is already changing. Volkswagen and Dell might store their products in the same warehouse, but where one warehouse ends and the other begins is determined by a dividing line on the floor. So getting to know where a product is becomes very important. Wal-Mart has gotten it, but most others have not. In the next five years, we'll see an absolutely massive change in our ability to communicate with devices."

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