[Gllug] ist that right that the Oyster card got RFID on it?

[Andy Smith]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:33:18PM +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:26:31 +0000 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
> wrote:
> > Ah well, now there's a point.  Why are the cash fares so expensive
> > now?
> > 
> 
> Because they have to employ people to collect and process them. Oyster
> cards are all about replacing workers with machines.

If you are suggesting this is bad then I assume you'll be selling
your computer and paying people to come and do all the things it
used to do for you.

Somone had to design those cards.  Someone made them and the
machines that make them.  Someone invented the technology.  But no,
let's go back to a nomadic lifestyle eh where at least everyone who
still survives can be kept busy rolling about in dirt.

This thread really seems to encourage the tinfoil brigade - I'm
sure there are no-tech communes you can all join, fill the walls
with a Faraday cage and live a blissful life of non-RFID.

Andy
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