ABI Insight
  • Please log in to purchase this product.
    Purchase this Product
  • Email this Page

    • Please enter a valid email address.

    Please enter a valid email address.

    Please enter a valid name.

    Your Email has been sent.

NFC and Flying Cars

Author: Jonathan Collins, Principal Analyst, Wireless Healthcare and M2M

Published: 07 Oct 2008

Remember this IBM ad from the year 2000? Avery Brooks is standing on the Brooklyn Bridge bemoaning the lack of flying cars. Technology proponents had long predicted flying cars would change the way we lived by 2000. “We were supposed to have flying cars. I want my flying cars,” Brooks says. That ad echoes the sentiments of some consumers talking about the potential of NFC-enabled handsets ­ especially when it comes to the promise of making payments by waving their phones at ticket barriers and cash registers. Weren’t those devices supposed to be here by now?

The full text of this Insight is available to subscribers of the Mobile Money & NFC Research Service.

Contact a representative about service purchasing options.