Tuesday, October 24, 2006
lick this...please...
wow... i got to say there is nothing like the future. Come on, right? I mean right now in the world there's this epidemic if you will, about identity. Not just identity theft, but identity in general. Questions like... What form will it come in? card or perhaps a chip? What type of information does it give away? And if so, what's the limit to the amount of information being given away? Nonetheless, this notion of the government having total control of the internet or the cyber world if you want to call it that; is becoming true. I say this because of a piece I read titled "A Trail of DNA and Data"...
"Could you lick this please?" the officer asks, passing you a nanofiber blotter. You comply and then slide the blotter into the palm-sized gizmo he is holding, which reads your DNA and runs a match against a national genomic database maintained by a consortium of drug companies and credit agencies. It also checks half a dozen metabolic fractions looking for everything from drugs and alcohol to lack of sleep.
Lack of sleep! Come on, that's it! That's when I got the idea that maybe the government is planning on using not only the internet (Myspace.com... get it now), but is also planning on using technology to control the world. But back to reality... On the other hand, maybe the grass is greener on other side. The positive about this, is that it will cause a dramatic decrease to the level of identity theft crimes. But it's almost like we got to give our freedom up. The real question is... is that a price we all want to pay, to live and fit-in in to the new world?
"Could you lick this please?" the officer asks, passing you a nanofiber blotter. You comply and then slide the blotter into the palm-sized gizmo he is holding, which reads your DNA and runs a match against a national genomic database maintained by a consortium of drug companies and credit agencies. It also checks half a dozen metabolic fractions looking for everything from drugs and alcohol to lack of sleep.
Lack of sleep! Come on, that's it! That's when I got the idea that maybe the government is planning on using not only the internet (Myspace.com... get it now), but is also planning on using technology to control the world. But back to reality... On the other hand, maybe the grass is greener on other side. The positive about this, is that it will cause a dramatic decrease to the level of identity theft crimes. But it's almost like we got to give our freedom up. The real question is... is that a price we all want to pay, to live and fit-in in to the new world?
