arphids and spime, oh my!

A cool little article from Wired News about artists embedding RFID tags into objects as commentary on ubiquitous wireless. I learned a few new terms courtesy of Bruce Sterling, one of my fave sci-fi authors. Objects with RFID tags are “spime” because they can be tracked through space & time. Apparently Sterling says arphids and not arreffeyedee when pronouncing the acronym. Who knew?

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