Children of the Machine

[The2ndWheel]

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/02/21/children-of-the-machine/

New technological advances could make us susceptible to perpetual surveillance

It received just a few column inches in a couple of papers, but the story I read last week looks to me like a glimpse of the future. A company in Ohio called CityWatcher has implanted radio transmitters into the arms of two of its workers. The implants ensure that only they can enter the strongroom. Apparently it is “the first known case in which US workers have been tagged electronically as a way of identifying them”(1).

There are, in other words, plenty of legitimate uses for implanted chips. This is why they bother me. A technology whose widespread deployment, if attempted now, would be greeted with horror, will gradually become unremarkable. As this happens, its purpose will begin to creep.

[Minnesota Libra]

1. Can anyone say "Big Brother of 1984", with the Bush's.......

.....it's coming and at record speed. :cry: The next step is to inset the capability into the chips that can stop someone in their tracks if they are doing or saying something against the rules of "Homeland Security". Of course there will be the "I'm not worried, I have nothing to hide crowd" :puke: and then there will be my type of "Crap no, it's none of you g.. d.... f.... business what I do and when I do it." :wtf: