Pagers, for example, are a simple and limited mechanism for communicating. But users have evolved a baroque, almost cabalistic kind of numeric poetry for exchanging messages. Unfortunately, technology also has a way of marching over limitations with each new release. As two-way pagers become more popular, wireless pidgin may become extinct. Software for enterprise resource planning and sales-force automation has become an industry worth billions.
Higher margins derived from scarcity are what too-literal use of automation eliminates.
In Veridicom's case, that something is a tiny chip capable of identifying fingerprints. Of course, we've been down this road before - and seen it blocked by the public's fear of Big Brother. Inc. All rights reserved.