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I agree, but I simply do not see that happening. The technology has benefits, a lot of them in fact, but what will happen in my estimation is that the christian right will protest it (and hence they must be weakened, liberalized) but they will be margianlized - and all the time people who are complaining about the privacy factor (and not the religious one) will not get much press.

They already have a wealth of responses to the privacy arguments, except what I see as the biggest one - trusting your government. I don't trust them whether bush or clinton are in, but they are a big driving force behind this. And with all the new buzz about security - well biometrics being used as the only source of being able to do business would solve that for the most part.

Proceedings for the Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference: Biometric Technologies...Emerging into the Mainstream: can be downloaded here in PDF format (29.6 MB file size). Compiled by Dr. Victor McCrary, Fernando Podio, and John Costello, the proceedings contain biographies of speakers as well as printed powerpoint slides from given talks.

You can download the PDF from this site: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/pubs.html Should be first paragraph on right side. It is about 700 pages and full of fascinating information from the conference. Well worth the read.