Captain Rhett Butler
Driving Instructor
Folks lining up to get these... it's scary. Reminds me of the end of days we've been hearing about since I was a kid. Like the Bible is playing out right before our eyes, yet we choose not to see it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...we-ready-for-technology-to-get-under-the-skin
I read some of the comments from the article and have hi-lighted these.
This seems insane. Of course I just watched Frontline’s program on AI, which was the scariest thing I’ve seen this year… So China has convinced its people to use face recognition as a way to buy groceries etc., apparently close to one in five stores are scanning your face along with your purchases and deducting the cost from your linked account, which of course also obviates the need to pay human clerks to do any kind of job.
Microchips could do the same thing, be a way that we scan and pay— while doing cashiers out of a job.
And of course China is creating a giant facial recognition database of all its citizens so it can track them everywhere. Everywhere. Do we think that microchipping will play out that differently?
Ed Snowden did not end up in exile in Russia so that we could all be microchipped so that we could be tracked everywhere. Do we seriously think that either private companies or the government are going to resist the urge to collect ALL the data we generate? At least with the Fitbit you can take it off.
There is nothing “irrational” about privacy fears. You have to have spent the last 20 years avoiding the news in almost every area if you have no concerns at all about your privacy.
To this day I only have an old style flip phone and have no need for any smart phone and get along just fine. They exist to occupy your mind, make loads of money off you and aren't needed at all. They don't want you thinking, just following whatever they choose to "feed" you and the suckers are falling for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...we-ready-for-technology-to-get-under-the-skin
I read some of the comments from the article and have hi-lighted these.
This seems insane. Of course I just watched Frontline’s program on AI, which was the scariest thing I’ve seen this year… So China has convinced its people to use face recognition as a way to buy groceries etc., apparently close to one in five stores are scanning your face along with your purchases and deducting the cost from your linked account, which of course also obviates the need to pay human clerks to do any kind of job.
Microchips could do the same thing, be a way that we scan and pay— while doing cashiers out of a job.
And of course China is creating a giant facial recognition database of all its citizens so it can track them everywhere. Everywhere. Do we think that microchipping will play out that differently?
Ed Snowden did not end up in exile in Russia so that we could all be microchipped so that we could be tracked everywhere. Do we seriously think that either private companies or the government are going to resist the urge to collect ALL the data we generate? At least with the Fitbit you can take it off.
There is nothing “irrational” about privacy fears. You have to have spent the last 20 years avoiding the news in almost every area if you have no concerns at all about your privacy.
To this day I only have an old style flip phone and have no need for any smart phone and get along just fine. They exist to occupy your mind, make loads of money off you and aren't needed at all. They don't want you thinking, just following whatever they choose to "feed" you and the suckers are falling for it.