In this article for Wired Magazine Bruce Sterling suggests that RFID-tagged items will take on new properties.

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Bruce Sterling is a futurist, journalist and science-fiction writer.

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What Bruce Sterling calls the Favela Chic class.

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Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.

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