efficiency food in comment and analysis

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Comment The Food Standard Agency's chief scientist's blog is a good example of an attempt at more open and interactive communication. User-generated content, online collaboration and diverse forms of community interaction have implications for political... [11 Oct 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Telecoms - get creative

Comment Throughout my life I have watched as food, wine, beer, clothing, furniture, most domestic appliances and electronics goods, and lots of office equipment have become commodities. Does it start to adjust to this reality by deploying optical fibre to... [12 Jun 2006]

Devil’s Advocate: Profligacy and destruction and IT

Comment We finish up, for example, with a complex food distribution network, operated by the major supermarkets, that results is most of our purchases travelling hundreds of miles before they reach our tables. [14 Sep 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Logistics on the move

Comment Starting from the introduction of RFID tags on individual goods spanning razors, running shoes and perishable items such as food and drink, through to the individual identification of pallets and containers, trucks and ships, we will realise new... [16 Oct 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile guesses

Comment Even the bar codes on our food and clothes look set to be replaced by single chip transponders to establish 100 per cent quality control, sales and aftercare service. The net result is that my mobile phone bill has dropped by 70 per cent and my... [17 Sep 2003]

Devil's Advocate: Technologists don’t know best

Comment Anyone who questions the rapid deployment of the very latest innovation from GM food to smart identity cards is branded a Luddite. While we have an obsession with efficiency and the maximum utilisation of resources, there are many instances of... [02 Jun 2003]

Devil's Advocate: Solutions to old problems in the New Year

Comment A shortage of fuel brings our whole distribution system to a halt in a matter of days, endangering food supplies and emergency services. Complex, computer-controlled logistics systems are moving products such as fresh food vast distances, making a... [17 Dec 2001]

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