Want to spend a summer making photocopies? Don’t work as an intern for Samsung’s Nick DeCarlo. Forget making coffee. The vice president of portfolio marketing for the South Korean tech conglomerate’s US arm had a far more challenging assignment for Eric Medin last summer: figure out a way to make use of a technology known as near field communication (NFC) that doesn’t involve payments. Not an easy task. NFC has long been regarded by cynics as the Brazil of mobile technologies: it’s the future… and always will be. The technology lets smartphones and other devices communicate with each other by holding them near each other. To put it crudely, think of it a smart, two-way version of the radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags widely used today. Read the full story at Forbes.