Implanting a chip under your skin as a personal ID is a very naive idea. It sounds like a sales stunt from a freshman business student, adopted by a desperate-for-recognition start-up company. We have implanted a lot of technologies in our bodies.
Just for example; crown teeth and filling, artificial joints, heart valves, remains dispensers for colon-cancer removals, plastic Corneal Implants, steel plates for broken bones, titanium replacements for bones, bypass implants, artificial skin for burns victims, in addition to silicon implants for cosmetic surgeries.
Every time any of these new medical miracles come out, we hear most of the voices praising science and we hear the religious crowd performing ceremonial rituals for acceptance of these new medicines and surgical operations. RFID deployment inside the human body is simply an overdue addition to these medical miracles. However, the moment we begin to consider that a permanent implant in the body is a work related subject, and that it is part of the job, we instantly forget the real world.
The real world states that you have the possibility of losing your job by the end of the surgery, or even sometimes while you are on the surgery table. In todays world of corporate America, a layoff, department change, a transfer, a promotion, a merger, an acquisition, a bankruptcy, or simply closing the shop and going out of business due to closure of the business unit is just around the corner. add the changing world of software, hardware, networks and wiring, etc, and you have an extreme possibility of one-year time life expectancy for such an implant.
Maybe the clandestine and intelligence community, in addition to industrial espionage community would benefit from such implants, because simply they have a lot more in their life to worry about than just a chip implant under the skin.
This makes you ask a simple question; what happened to the ancient old way of verification; Where is the kings ring that he gave you? How come you are not wearing it?
The ironic answer might be; I do not like rings, but I love chip-implants under my skin.
That does not mean that this is the end of times. That means you just got an answer from a freakin wierdo.
Of course we socialize, if we are in the mood for MAC boxes, we are on some web chat portal like MSN or Yahoo messenger ( even though we are 10 feet apart ) if we are on PC's, we hit ICQ bars, IRC restaurants, maybe a wild NNTP clubs, some time we go chicken surfing. If we are feeling good about the HP-UX honkers, we flame the terminals wild ( goddamn or bless X windows, it depends on what happens to you;-)And when it's time for a LAN party.... hoooly smokes, no one dares to come near man. It's Pizza, pop, some guys do beer, some blue smoke, but mostly that party is a chance to catch up on the code and systems integration for our own boxes and apps that we cannot finish because of the users headaches. And when pagers scream like sirens that a router is down=party's over:-(
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Implanting a chip under your skin as a personal ID is a very naive idea. It sounds like a sales stunt from a freshman business student, adopted by a desperate-for-recognition start-up company. We have implanted a lot of technologies in our bodies.
Just for example; crown teeth and filling, artificial joints, heart valves, remains dispensers for colon-cancer removals, plastic Corneal Implants, steel plates for broken bones, titanium replacements for bones, bypass implants, artificial skin for burns victims, in addition to silicon implants for cosmetic surgeries.
Every time any of these new medical miracles come out, we hear most of the voices praising science and we hear the religious crowd performing ceremonial rituals for acceptance of these new medicines and surgical operations. RFID deployment inside the human body is simply an overdue addition to these medical miracles. However, the moment we begin to consider that a permanent implant in the body is a work related subject, and that it is part of the job, we instantly forget the real world.
The real world states that you have the possibility of losing your job by the end of the surgery, or even sometimes while you are on the surgery table. In todays world of corporate America, a layoff, department change, a transfer, a promotion, a merger, an acquisition, a bankruptcy, or simply closing the shop and going out of business due to closure of the business unit is just around the corner. add the changing world of software, hardware, networks and wiring, etc, and you have an extreme possibility of one-year time life expectancy for such an implant.
Maybe the clandestine and intelligence community, in addition to industrial espionage community would benefit from such implants, because simply they have a lot more in their life to worry about than just a chip implant under the skin.
This makes you ask a simple question; what happened to the ancient old way of verification; Where is the kings ring that he gave you? How come you are not wearing it?
The ironic answer might be; I do not like rings, but I love chip-implants under my skin.
That does not mean that this is the end of times. That means you just got an answer from a freakin wierdo.
Of course we socialize, if we are in the mood for MAC boxes, we are on some web chat portal like MSN or Yahoo messenger ( even though we are 10 feet apart ) if we are on PC's, we hit ICQ bars, IRC restaurants, maybe a wild NNTP clubs, some time we go chicken surfing. If we are feeling good about the HP-UX honkers, we flame the terminals wild ( goddamn or bless X windows, it depends on what happens to you ;-)And when it's time for a LAN party.... hoooly smokes, no one dares to come near man. It's Pizza, pop, some guys do beer, some blue smoke, but mostly that party is a chance to catch up on the code and systems integration for our own boxes and apps that we cannot finish because of the users headaches. And when pagers scream like sirens that a router is down=party's over :-(