efficiency food in comment and analysis
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... [17 Dec 2001]
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... [16 Oct 2003]
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]
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... [02 Jun 2003]
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... [12 Jun 2006]
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... [17 Sep 2003]
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... [11 Oct 2007]
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