I recently
posted a rant about cell phones and how, I believed, people would be amenable to
a cell phone chip implant, in order to be connected, 24/7, to their phone.
The
statement was a glib jab at people’s obsessive cell phone use.
The idea of
an implant, at the posting, seemed an absurd example.
At my age,
eighth decade, sleep follows a predictable pattern: a nap if I feel like it in
the afternoon and six hours averaged at night; which means, I wake between four-thirty
and five, in the quiet of the morning, and this is the time that my monkey mind
takes control and I occupy the realm of imagination.
This morning
it was cell phone implants. Actually, a
cell phone implant is not such an absurd idea, as the technology exist
today. Amazon’s Alexa voice recognition-
pods can control your home, send texts, play music, and generally control all the
electronic functions in your life.
The medical
technology exists to wire the synapse in your brain to machine functions, so it
would not be a giant leap to develop the micro-miniature chip implant that
could connect you, through Wi-Fi, to a service similar to Alexa.
If cell
phone towers were converted to Wi-Fi towers you could be connected to the world,
through your implant, from any place on earth: Alexa send text; Alexa start my
car; Alexa play music; Alexa turn off the lights; Alexa set my security system;
Alexa start the coffee pot; Alexa book travel plans…
The chip
could also hold all your financial and medical information that would allow you
to make purchases at stores, or check into a hospital with just a scan. You would no longer need a driver’s license,
or personal ID. You would not need a
passport to travel the world.
How possible
would it be for geographic nations to become secondary to the citizenship of
your electronic Nation? Are you a
citizen of Apple; are you an Amazon citizen; are you Samsung…?
Present
governments would love a bionic society.
They could locate you; they could listen in to your private conversations; they
could read your text messages; they could judge your mental and physical state;
They would know EVERYTHING about you: what foods you eat, who you communicate
with, what purchases you make, who you are sleeping with and how often; and by
accessed video cameras in your home, they could watch you. It would move Orwell’s 1984 to a new level: Big
Brother of 2084 – total surveillance.
I not only
think this technology is possible; but I think it is probable in the future. The question is, how much personal privacy
are people willing to relinquish to be a member of the techno-herd? I think that question has already been
answered: check out Facebook etc.
the Ol'Buzzard
