a. Was not painful to the animal.  
 

b. Visible only to an RFID reader.

1. It may be possible for the government or a similar authority to pass a law saying that all assets declared by a publicly held corporation on its books   should be tagged with a read-on.
    
2.  With the Enron & Worldcom corporate scandals still fresh in people’s minds, this RFID asset tagging could be a solution suggested by external independent auditors.
   
   
3. Standardization of asset number tags is a possibility, therefore all “asset” tags will follow a certain standard both in physical aspects as well in their internal data  structure.

1. In future the governments & food safety authorities, the WHO & other international bodies may mandate the usage of RFID tags to determine the safety of food in the supply chain. Thus international shipments of foodstuff may have to carry tamperproof RFID tags.
   
   
2. Savvy customers may now demand that produce labeled as “organic” or “chemical free” is really so. They may demand that the seller prove the origin by means of a pedigree trail (similar to the drug pedigree shown earlier) or else risk loss of his sales.

The hospital smart shelf may become the norm, rather than the exception in all publicly funded hospitals and even in privately owned ones.Costs of such systems are dropping, but even now the ROI is easily justified, it will be impossible to ignore in the days to come.