No. Next question please.
They would have to put a bullet in my head first. After I’ve emptied my last mag....
If it let people track me, no. My smartphone is bad enough in that regard.
There may be some circumstances in which I’d be willing, but I can’t think of any to be honest.
You mean, “Would you get the mark of the Beast?”.
No
The chip counter fitting market will be highly lucrative.
If you can read a chip, you can dupe it.
I feel bad for all the poor saps who have to keep getting new chips just to ‘get their identity back’
Revelation 13:16-18 New International Version (NIV)
16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[a] That number is 666.
If it meant I never had to worry about losing keys and/or wallet again.
Yeah…no. Not on your life. Especially not on my life.
“Would You Get Chipped?”
My dog? Perhaps.
Myself, wife, kids? No, thank you.
For years I have been wondering why this is not done to prisoners of war upon their release. I could have said “the terrorists that are being held in Guantanamo”, but you get the idea?
Anyway, this could be a very interesting topic to explore in a novel. For example:
* what if the ACLU finds out?
* what if it is REALLY already being done?
* * but the people who were chipped did not know?
* * or if they DID know?
* what if it was done, but the transmitters were placebos?
* * And the people who were chipped thought they were real?
* * How would that alter their behavior?
* What if someone received 10 different implants?
* * And all of them; or none of them, were real?
Fascinating stuff to consider.
Not unless they do it by force.
I have always been an advocate for computer technology, I can see in many respects how wrong I have been. The good in computer technology is very good, but the bad has turned out to be awful.
I believe the widespread use of cell phones in general and smart phones in particular overall has had a deleterious cultural impact on society.
Sure. There is a lot of good associated with computers and phones, FR is a good example, buying things online and having them delivered a day or two later (with all the computer infrastructure and underpinnings of that from the cargo loading schedules for planes, ordering software, etc) being able to call from anywhere anytime when the car breaks down is good.
My wife and I went past the location of a famous record store some time back in a big city. It was nighttime, and the record store was shuttered, because...who buys music like that anymore? (That isn’t bad)
What was bad was the 20-30 people out there waiting for a bus (it was near a college) and every single one of those people had their head craned down, looking at a smart phone, faces lit by the screen.
Not talking. Not looking around. Just like zombies, staring at their hand. I will tell you, it creeped me out.
There is an entire culture of people who have never observed or seen many significant things with their own eyes.
They have only seen it through the viewfinder of a smartphone. I just don’t like it.
It has destroyed something in society.
No...I wouldn’t.
Ahh, NO!
Besides, using FB plus a cell phone is probably close to that already.
Many websites require you to have a FB account and your cell phone tells anyone interested, where you are.
Would consider it in L. Neil Smith’s libertarian alternate probability (parallel dimension). Here? Now? Not on a bet!
KYPD
Chipped for an employer? Then when I leave the company I have to get a doctor to dig it out? I’ll be sure to get an infection and sue them for it.
uhhh.....no.
Then again I appear to be the only guy on my block who put up a battle against smart meters too.
Not a chance.
First it will be a privilege. Then it will be a requirement. Then they will cut your head off if you refuse.
Sure,after I’m dead.