More than likely one if not all of your credit cards has recently been replaced by a “Smart Card.” After reading chapter 16 Identification Numbers and after doing some research, thoroughly explain what a “Smart Card” is, what are the pros and cons to widespread use of “Smart Cards.” “Smart Cards” are not a “new” idea explain why it may have taken so long to be adopted widely in the United States.
Here are two links that may help with your research, but there are many others available. Please use at least
THREE resources besides your textbook.
FOUR sources total
Gizmodo - What are Smart Credit Cards and Why are They Coming?
https://gizmodo.com/what-are-smart-credit-cards-and-why-are-they-coming-1520171221
Canadian publication from 1993 - Smart Cards
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.601.7987&rep=rep1&type=pdf
This essay should be 2-3 pages, and like all assignments for this course, is to be done in APA style. All
resources are to be listed according to APA style in a Reference Section at the end of the essay. In text
citations are required to give credit to the source of your information.
text book info attached
Garfunkel, S. (216), For all practical purposes: Mathematical literacy in today's world (10th ed).
New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company ISBN 9781464124730
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