Will you be chipped?

[PARADISE]

I hear more and more about "chipping" of people. I find the idea repulsive, and indeed very scary. I think it poignant to ask yourself will you accept a chip? and more importantly will you have a choice?
ie- "for security all pilots must accept a chip, for security, those who do not can find another profession."

I have done some reseach and this 8 minute video below promts me to ask the question.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid= ... urth+reich

Paradise

[LostinRotation]

You can do ten+ year study of the long term effects on being "chipped"...after I see this...then I'll tell you.....and by "tell you" I mean say no.


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[Nightshiftzombie]

Will they get Mark Messier to do promos for it?

[Walker]

Well im all for conspiracy theories etc… but It will never make the mainstream as a requirement for identity, It would be too easily hacked especially if it was wireless as all you would have to do is attach a receiver to a PDA write some kind of capturing software and walk around town grabbing peoples ID out of the air, then reprogram a chip with someone else’s ID and presto change-O. Furthermore, if I want to get through that door then how about I chop your arm off then off I go…
What “MAY” eventually be used would be tagging of bone via nanites, but when nano technology gets to that point of sophistication and cost effectiveness were going to be dealing with a hell of a lot more social questions than digitized IDs. Especially after someone figures out how to recode them in their basement, In my humble opinion nanotechnology has the potential to have more impact on the species than fire and electricity combined.
As for would I ever accept a chip? Only If I knew exactly what it was and If I knew every line of code on every microprocessor on its board. Then that would be a “maybe.” What would be of more interest would be optical implants to be able to bring up an overlay onto your vision to display pertinent information, be able to receive and send telephone and text messages, access the web, or a future version of a VPN without the need for carrying any additional hardware. But if we get to that point were going to have another problem (assuming no one try’s any funny business) and that would be these things would not be free. And if there not free than only those who could afford them would get them, those who had them would become far more capable in the workplace, eventually making non augmented workers obsolete, so we would have succeeded in creating a class society with impenetrable barriers of entry

In the next 100 years we have some VERY serious questions we are going to have to figure out…

[duCapo]

I was getting our new puppy chipped the other day after getting his balls cut off, and I thought the chip combined with the spray commander and nuetering would solve alot of problems in our pilots room:-)

[I_Drive_Planes]

When I saw the title of this thread for some reason I immediately thought of woodchippers


As I'm scanning it half asleep I see this:

I hear more and more about "chipping" of people. I find the idea repulsive, and indeed very scary

I agree

Then I see this:

I was getting our new puppy chipped the other day

and I'm thinking "You sick $%^@!"

I should really start reading the whole thread.

Planes