35. Scanning the Horizon
from The Known World Hosted by David Alan Grier
In addition to reducing the time it took to pay for purchases, bar codes and scanners provided a system that would track inventory, reduce theft, and provide data to help merchants understand how their goods were purchased. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2009.58
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