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Article: Integrated circuits: what's on the cards? A quick flash of the card is all it takes to open ticket barriers in most Tokyo train stations today, and soon we'll be buying out newspapers and breath mints in the same flash way Hashimoto Katsunori examines the present state of the information technology society and the new lifestyles being created by contactless IC cards.(Economy Feature)
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- May 1, 2003
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THE society we live in today is sometimes called the "card society." because of the many different types of cards that are available. Cash cards and credit cards issued by financial institutions, telephone cards, prepaid rare cards for railways and buses, point cards of retailers, employee ID cards, membership ID cards and other kinds of cards are used in various ways in daily life. Most cards today are magnetic cards with data stored in magnetic strips or surfaces. But in the near future, integrated circuit (IC) cards with an IC chip embedded in them are likely to take over from magnetic cards. In fact, the world market for IC cards is expected to grow to a scale of ...
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