NuclearWinter
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THE PENNY DROPS AT LAST?
We reached a significant milestone with the official acknowledgement that we are heading for mass human microchipping within a decade as we 'sleep walk' into the 'Surveillance Society'.
This suggested timescale is highly optimistic and important shall we awaken from the trance very soon and we are talking around 4-5 years, but, most importantly, there is the prospect of the bar-coded human that is being discussed in the mainstream.
It is a long way from the days a decade and more ago when my very suggestion that we were heading for microchipped people was guaranteed to trigger guffaws and belly laughs. But no more.
This week, Britain's Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, responded to a report into the use of surveillance technology that warns that people may be forced to be microchipped 'like pet dogs' to track their movements and store personal information which, of course, would no longer be personal to anyone with a chip reader. The chips could be used not only by the government, says the report, but also by companies to keep tabs on employees. We would, as many have been warning for so long, be like monkeys in an electronic cage, rats in an electronic maze.
Cat-scan today ... humans tomorrow, say report authors
The report was edited by Dr David Murakami-Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, and was produced by a group of academics called the Surveillance Studies Network. They say that very soon almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies - unless we turn back from the brink pretty damn quick. "The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated', the authors warn.