And an internal Visa analysis supporting an effort to extend to Europe its rule barring member banks from issuing American Express cards projected that American Express would be a far more effective competitor if Visa did not have this protection, with Visa members losing significant market share.
The brain of the installation is powered by openFramework software, which reads the RFID cards, projects the appropriate information onto the display using three WUXGA projectors, then communicates between the display and the Arduino-based scroll wheel to ensure the beautiful storytelling works seamlessly.
Give your class report cards, projects, and yearbooks.
Inners play the security card – project fear – outers play the sovereignty card, project bondage.
Mr. Lhota said several state lawmakers had privately asked him why the authority was pursuing the smart-card project, noting that the current system worked.
Converting people to digital is about trust just as much as convenience, suggested one participant, whose company operates a pre-paid card project in Pakistan.
Microsoft is angling to work on India's national identity card project, Mr. Gates said, and he will be meeting with Nandan Nilekani, the minister in charge.
The authority said it could not immediately calculate how much had been spent on the smart-card project already, or how much it expected to spend to replace the MetroCard.
But then, during her leave of absence, she poured herself into The Race Card Project, something she had started while on a book tour in 2010 to spur conversations about race.
If the blue card project is approved, it would grant high-skilled workers a renewable right to work and live anywhere in the European bloc, with permanent residence given automatically after five consecutive years.
