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I am with you, I am intensely creeped out by where technology is taking us.

People think I am being paranoid but I know that they are encouraging us to microchip our pets so that we will find it acceptable to start microchipping our babies so that everyone can know everything about us with just one scan. Scares the crap out of me...

Not to mention that we will soon be genetically engineering our children while they are still a fetus in the womb.

I am very much terrified of the future and where our society is heading.

 

Don't like them. Infact if a lot of people started wearing them then I would wear a mask.

Its sad how unaware much of the people are to these types of things. Just the other day I was reading the back of a pack of sweets my sister had and it had a government warning saying 'Contains Sulphites', I asked my mum if she knew if Sulphites were harmful or not and her reply was 'Of course not, they wouldn't put harmful things in our food'.....

 

Why do you say that?

 

You seem to spend a lot of time worrying so much about what everyone else is doing... look around you, appreciate the beauty in the world. There are a lot of shitty things going on in the world, but there are a lot of great things and great people as well. You come across as such an angry guy, and maybe that's just because this is a place that you can vent and talk about your frustrations freely, but you'll end up driving yourself crazy worrying so much about all of this shit.

It's good to be informed and know what's going on, but obsessing about it isn't going to change anything. 99% of us are pawns in the world, and it's important to know that... but you can still enjoy your life and find happiness in the world. I know I'm always happy when I'm disconnected from the news for a week or two... I should probably just stop paying attention but it's easier said than done.

 

We've done this before...

 

You microchip animals to know where they are when they are lost.

We already are. It is already possibile to choose eye color or some basic stuff like that.

I am 100% sure that humans will exterminate themselves at some point, though.

 

I thought they might cause an allergic reaction to some people. That's also why some labels state 'may contain nuts'. I think you might be unduly alarming your mother if you said they were harmful/dangerous to us all.

 

i don't know if we'll exterminate ourselves completely, but i think it's pretty fair to believe that society as we know it will cease to exist at some point, just as it has for many past societies that we know about (and maybe more that we don't).

 

We will be completely exterminated one day, whether it is our own doing or not.

 

We already have Rfid chips that can be implanted in dogs and children. Its very possible that within the next decade or so everyone will be "hardwired"

 

qft

 

This is my exact point. So pretty soon it will be suggested that we get our children microchipped so that we can find them when they are lost...

 

I might be wrong, but I think the chips put in dogs can't locate them - they just contain retrievable information.
I don't think there is a 'chip' that has or can retain enough power for it to be a long term viable option to be used as a transmitter.

To be fair, I think this is slightly old news.
http://www.rfid-blog.com/?p=9
As the article points out, rfid chips wouldn't be of much use to find a child - only to perhaps monitor a child within a school, for e.g - somewhere they could pass through a 'scanner' at an entrance to the school or classroom.
It's more likely a parent would choose to use a mobile phone so as to actually talk to the child.
I can foresee a chip being implanted that had medical records etc on it - but to locate a child/person? Not in our life times - definitely not mandatory.

 

From what I understand, those chips just hold information about the animal's owner, so that animal control can scan an animal they find and contact the owner. It's basically just having a dog tag implanted.

 

Possible, I don't know about very possible. Do you have any proof of plans for anything like this?

 

Technologies like this are in their infancy, the equivalent of the Wright Bros first plane. It's just a matter of time, like I said most likely in the next couple of decades, and with the direction our current world governments are headed anything if possible.

 

Mike Suicide

So you think in the next two decades it is very possible that the entire population of industrialised nations will force their populace to undergo a medical procedure to implant some form of chip to monitor their whereabouts 24/7? And if not willingly, kicking and screaming into the operating theater?
And this will be the plan of successive governments, with no opposition, all over the planet?
Why is it always in the not to distant future - why isn't ever in the distant future?
If it's taken 30 years to shrink the technology for a mobile phone - what makes you think the technology will be advanced enough for a self contained tracking device, with a power source to last a lifetime, to be invented in the next 20 years?
It's always just close enough, but not quite to make predictions something to concern ourselves about.
In 1984 were we not all supposed to have monitoring devices we were unable to turn off in our living rooms?
I can't turn off my fave' TV show - but that's about it.
Anything is possible - like pigs flying.

 

Yes it's every possible, look at what we're doing with nano technology. They are already working on nano machines that can perform surgeries and act a power sources.

Ever heard of Moore's Law? It states that the number of transistors an an integrated circuit will double every 2 years. in 1970 and IC had 2600 transistors and today over 2 billion. Technology will continue to get smaller and faster to a power of 10 or more in the next a couple of decades.

And tyranny is not met with opposition but usually welcomed with open arms. If what to get hypothetical, it could start with new borns and mandatory tracking ID cards for adults, gradually everybody will be implanted.

And the technologies Orwell refers to are irrelevant, but his ideologies are right on the money. It happening right now, with new laws restricting our rights and fascist ideologies controlling our governments and politicians.