What do chewing gum, lasers, and lines in the sand have in common? They are all a part of the story of the barcode, the 44-year-old technology that changed the modern economy.
Robert Glass examines the many parallels between how the barcode changed the world and how digitalisation is doing the same today – using the digital revolution to open up new opportunities and improving productivity. In the United States, at 8:01, on 26 June 1974, in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, something happened that changed…
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