06-10-2011, 11:36 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Ed Jewett Wrote:* I was going to suggest that we have some kind of mechanism everyone would be required to wear... an IFF beanie... that transmitted in the background and in an ongoing manner the full array of self-labels, information consumption trends and tendencies, the results of psychological screening tests, one's tendencies or proclivities....
or, it appears, we could simply carry an android that would do it for us.
'mere C3PO...
... a few experimental supermarkets ... then there are those who have had microchip RFID implants in their bodies....becoming C3PO's themselves.
I have read the stories about such stores; I think they fell into the "wave of the future" category then, but the future is arriving as we speak. At my most recent visit to the electrophysiologist at the big downtown famous clinic at the crossroads of modern technology and medical mecca-ville, I was told by the nurse at the clinic who specializes in and checks out the onboard Porsche in my chest -- my boss and cardiologist were also mailed copies of the article on the shielding of it to outside interference by remote attackers with microwave or other nefarious means -- that my new unit (arriving in about 18-24 months and which will be gifted to me when the battery on the old one wears out, along the re-placement of the second lead) will enable WiFi reading and tracking anywhere on the globe by satellite.
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