Just How Big Will RFID Be?

People have been predicting the mass adoption of RFID since 2003. They've also been underestimating just how important and ubiquitous RFID will become. So let me explain why RFID adoption will begin to accelerate, and then I will get to why I think we are all underestimating its importance. First, technologies are always hyped. There are great expectations that a new technology will change the world, and then it turns out to be more difficult to deploy than people initially thought. It takes time for technologies to mature, for complete solutions to be developed, even for people to understand how the technologies should be used. Remember when the Internet bubble burst and all the dot-coms went out of business?