Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Tag - You're It

http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=240878

A few thoughts on the subject of RFID implants:

a) I just can't help but think being permanently tagged by an authority (my employer, the government, etc...) is a bad idea.

b) Such tagging seems to be historically linked to slavery or worse (think Nazis).

c) Revelation was written 1900 years ago, at a time when it was technologically unfeasible to mark *all* people and require said mark as a precondition to participating in economic activity. People in the intervening centuries have indeed scoffed - ha! - at the notion. ("What sort of raving lunatic would come up with such a 'vision' of the future!"). But now the technology to both mark humans and effectively restrict their economic activities based on certain preconditions (i.e. not having the mark) exists.

Is it just me, or does that all add up to a whole lot of creepiness?

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