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Originally Posted by flamey_mcflame
well..let me give you an example of what the future could look like...the gov't and technological watchdogs can track everyone's movements...but the only time that we actually review your actions is when a crime is committed..ie. ..murder.....well in the future that crime will be solved instantaneously..it wont be able to prevent crimes..but as any sociologist can tell you...most crimes are committed by multiple offenders...so if you remove these offenders crimes will drop significantly...and people wont commit crimes if they know they will be caught..it could something as simple as some sort of implant ...i obviously havent thought of every possible positive or negative outcome by living in this kind of society..but theres an example where you still have freedoms without the government tsk tsking your every action....and rather than thinking of privacy(freedom) and security as opposite ends of spectrum..they are actually on the same side...my freedom to go out tonight and not worry about being swarmed or mugged is enhanced by security rather than restricted..
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And about the time this is all happening is when some corrupt government party will stage a coup of the country and declair himself Emperor. Then us poor citizens can't do anything to fight back and retake our country because the government will then use these technologies to know everything that's going on. Resistance cells would be impossible to form. There'd be no way to combat the tyranny.
Far fetched? Yes. Impossible? Not on the slippery slope you're talking about.
What you're talking about has already started in some degree though. Like at Disney World now, you have to use your fingerprint to access the park. If you dont want to use your fingerprint, you're welcome to refund your admission and go home.
Wasn't there also talk about iris scanning and recognition technology being used in airports?
I don't think microchips embedded under the skin are that far off. They'll be optional at first, for convience since they'll store your credit card and banking info, ID info, stuff like that, but eventually they'll become so pervasive in the population that everyday technologies will begin to phase out anything that doesn't use the chips...
Anyways, Im starting to sound more like a conspiracy theorist than I want to.