What was true in 1955 is even more true tooay, to say nothing of the future. According to the Civil Service 2000 report: Just as there is not really a unitary Federal work force, but rather a collection of Federal agencies, there is not really a national labor market, but a collection of local ones.
CHIPS UID stands for Clearing House Interbank Payments System Universal Identifier. This is just a fancy name for an electronic clearinghouse database system, which facilitates the transfer of funds from both individual consumers and institutions.
With this type of chip, inventory is counted by walking down an aisle with an RFID reader picking up signals from RFID chips attached to the cartons and cases of products. The vision of a computer chip chirping out my credit card information into thin air was a disturbing one.