Reply #71: While I understand where you're coming from- sort of- my complaint... [View All]

...is that this new tech only opens up a new way for consumers to be exploited by the very same people you're accusing of perpetuating 'wage slavery'- not to mention the ways this technology could be used by criminals.

Then there are the potential health effects of implantable chips. YES, I know they've been used in medicine now for some time with great success, but opening the technology up to a nonmedical application enables corporate America- 'wage slavers', all- to produce cheap knockoffs, and under the current maladministration, I have little to no faith that the production standards will be actively and effectively monitored by any responsible authority. I'll not mention any little 'easter eggs' the companies producing these implants may put into place (and before you call me paranoid, I should remind you that Sony just got caught putting malware on their music CDs without telling anyone).

Finally, you yourself keep bringing up ATM cards, credit cards, PIN numbers, and the like, and keep saying that we already use similar forms of identification that are actually less secure. Leaving aside the fact that the security of such things depends entirely upon the competence of the holder, your comments bring up an excellent question we all should be asking: why do we need this? Aside from it being an implantable chip, how is it "different" from what we're using now, and why do we need to be 'encouraged' to change that?

Babies today are given a Social Security number at birth, or soon after. Why is it such a terrible stretch of the imagination to conceive of a day when babies are implanted with a chip containing that number, which then "safeguards" all their future transactions? What happens when some of these chips are 'defective', as will surely happen eventually?

That doesn't seem to be so outrageous a concept these days, now, does it?