I recently wrote a post that concluded as follows:
By the way, when talking about digital images, Adobe notes that the correct term is pixels per inch, not dots per inch. DPI specifically refers to printer resolution, which is appropriate when you’re printing a fingerprint card but not when you’re displaying an image on a screen.
It’s a safe bet that older readers of Biometric Update—those who used printers to print out fingerprint cards based upon captured digital images—are familiar with the DPI (dots per inch) acronym.
So perhaps those readers, like me, were confused by the title of a recent Biometric Update article, “DPI is the new ‘global tech bet’ and these are the five core motivations for adoption, researchers say.”
What happened to the paperless office? All the police agencies got rid of their file cabinets of cards, and now they’re supposed to adopt DPI again?
Well you know sometimes acronyms have two meanings.
In this case, DPI stands for digital public infrastructure, a key component of smart cities.
And those five core components are fiscal resilience, public services, economic development, national sovereignty, and competition and rent extraction.
Although you would think that SMART people could come up with a better term than rent EXTRACTION.
For more information on those core components, read the Biometric Update “DPI” article.
And no, I shouldn’t cast stones at acronym misuse, since I’m a self-identified CPA. You can’t account for hypocrisy.
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