Are you ready for the mark of the beast?
Many of us have read 1984. What could be more ghastly then having electronics spying on your every move. Well the technologies are continuing to be developed rapidly for changing the whole course of human existence. These technologies can be viewed in many popularly media such as cartoon and movies.
Biometric technologies such as voice prints, retina and iris scanners, face-recognition cameras, digitized fingerprints, and even implantable chips containing personal information can benefit us. Such technologies will find their way into cell phones and mobile computers, car doors, doorknobs, and office keys. (from Human Bar Code)
In Minority Report, Tom Cruise’s plays John Anderton who has to cut out his eyes to be clear of a retinal scan that will identify him to the police. To be serious about crime Mexican police have resorted to the real deal and implanted RFID chips inside the skins of top level officers. The Simpsons episode covers the use of video surveillance described as an Orwellian nightmare. Face recognition system was used at Super Bowl XXXV in January 2001, police in Tampa Bay, Florida, used Identix’ facial recognition software, FaceIt, to search for potential criminals and terrorists in attendance at the event. (it found 19 people with pending arrest warrants)[ (Wikipedia)
Furthermore, Microsoft, the mega company of death, has been recorded as presenting a patent application for technology that will monitor various human biometric data. This all could be combined to control humanity for some ill purpose in the future, especially when the citizens are fearful of being (1) kidnapped, (2) murdered, and/or (3) having their identities stolen.
The mark of the beast, perhaps? The idea here is that your movements, your presence, and your identity can be tracked by the current technologies, all that has to happen is for the social stigma to be eliminated. This fear factors certainly can go a long way in adjust social perceptions of the receptance of the population to be monitored.
Are you ready for the mark?
Additional References
Microsoft’s Big Brother Patent?
Human Bar Code: monitoring Biometric Technologies in a Free Society.
Microsoft seeks patent for office ‘spy’ software Microsoft submitted a patent application in the US for a “unique monitoring system” that could link workers to their computers. Wireless sensors could read “heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, movement facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure”, the application states.
Wikipedi Article Minority Report described.
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