Everything is in the process of being set up for him to walk in and begin his appointed role in the wrap-up of this age.
I don't care, neither my wife, my kids, nor I will be here. Anyone stupid enough to ignore Christ deserves to be left behind.
Posted on 01/02/2012 12:14:06 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
If you’ve got your eye on a new cell phone purchase in 2012, chances are, it will be equipped with a technology called Near Field Communication (NFC). NFC is technology’s next giant leap forward.
It’s not too risky to say that your cell phone is going to replace your computer and your Internet service. You’ll know it the moment you activate an NFC-enabled device. From it will emerge a new generation officially known as the Internet of Things (IoT).
To describe IoT is to understand that every object around us will take on its own digital description and geospatial location – added or edited by anyone. Know a good burger joint? Just write it up, give it a geo-location by pointing your camera at it, snap and upload. That image just became a Thing on the IoT.
All objects will eventually make it on the IoT. Your shoes, the sweater you bought at Target and the money in your pocket will soon have embedded in them digital transmitters called radio frequency identification devices, or RFIDs. Want to drop a few Euros on dinner in Rome? The RFID receiver will verify the bill is not counterfeit, when it was printed and who owned in throughout its lifecycle. Money laundering won’t be possible. Every bill’s chain of custody can be tracked and the moment some undesirable character tries to pass money, it is electronically rendered worthless.
RFIDs are tiny. They’re about the half the size of a grain of rice. They need no power supply to be stimulated to transmit their signals to receivers equipped to catch, and respond to, their NFC signal. The most common receivers and transmitters will be – you guessed it -- roving cell phones canvassing every square inch of the planet carried by their human owners.
Objects will make themselves recognizable and communicate information about themselves. Cell phones with NFC will access information, collect and analyze it and share it with other objects. A toaster won’t be simply a device to toast bread, but Ed’s toaster, a device with which he has toasted 221 pieces of bread since deployed; 56% having been wheat bread. Ed’s toaster is located with an Internet location geocoded to Ed’s kitchen counter located in a single-family residence Ed has owned since 1997 – and so forth. The toaster’s manufacturer, General Electric, can see Ed’s toaster via the Internet of Things and monitor its use from its corporate headquarters in New York. When Ed’s neighbor drives by, Ed’s toaster presents an Icon on his neighbor’s cell camera image. If the neighbor is curious he could request Ed’s toaster history (provided Ed allows it).
Last month my electric utility provider installed a Smart Meter at my home. My power usage, conservation efforts and when I’m using it, is known real time by the utility. If they want to meter me back, in the event of a power crunch, they can selectively brown me out from the power plant. NFC allows my cell phone to monitor information about how much power my pool pump is consuming. My cell phone can turn on my lights, my television and adjust my thermostat before I arrive home after a long day at the office. Each device becomes a member of the Internet of Things.
Now you have the first half of the big picture.
Your next cell phone will be equipped to communicate with the people you know and to the objects that surround you.
As we enter 2012, there are about 1.5 billion PCs and 1 billion mobile phones that can be connected to the Internet. In 5 years there will be 100 billion devices, and objects, connected to the Internet and Internet of Things. Most will be sensors.
Your interface to read these sensors will be your cell phone via an almost unimaginable technology called Augmented Reality, or AR for short. WikiTude, Facebook and Google will be transformed allowing you to use your cell camera to enter a world of objects, augmented by informational icons. To enter this world you simply look through your camera lens and all the images have search links about that object superimposed on your live camera image. (visit http://www.wikitude.com/myworld or search for the words Augmented Reality applications to learn more).
Imagine walking down the street while walking your dog. Along the way, you open your cell phone to camera mode. As you move along, your camera view receives NFC transmission icons, or bubbles, and places them over your neighbor’s image overlaying his Facebook status, education history and his Friends list and Newsfeed. Similarly, Starbuck’s senses your NFC broadcast and sends you a text advertising its double latte special because it knows you’ve spent $42.60 on similar products in the last twelve months. You lift your camera, point it towards Starbucks and it calculates you have a 7-minute wait with 4 customers waiting for their lattes. Any number of other people, locations or other objects you pass transfer a sea of NFC signals about that object.
If this sounds like science fiction, think again. It’s already available or being tested in China, South Africa, Germany, France, Britain and two dozen other countries. ATT, Verizon, MasterCard, Visa and Spain-based Telefónica are shipping units as fast as they can become available. Facebook, Google, WikiTude and dozens of start-up software companies are providing the cell phone apps.
We have improved our possibilities for relating to each other beyond the limits of direct physical relations. We can go beyond the anthropological limit of 150 people with whom we can keep in direct contact. The Internet of Things will make it possible for objects to get information about their position in the world, to interact with other objects and to have access to comparative information for data gathered in their vicinity.
With this unbridled power of IoT and Augmented Reality there is a real threat that this new capability could destabilize governments, or worse, governments could usurp the freedoms of people if they tried to own control over it.
Welcome to 2012. It’s going to be an interesting year ahead.
I think I may become a “Neo-Luddite”
Coming soon, the Neo-Luddite Movement to smash NFC-capable technologies.
Good grief Chuckster, are you already monitoring my brain waves?
The whole scenario of connectivity on steroids outlined above sounds a bit nightmarish actually.
Good grief Chuckster, are you already monitoring my brain waves?
I’ve worked in technology for over sixteen years.
Yes, it is a nightmare.
For every good thing you can do with technology like this there are ten bad.
Microsoft produced a wonderful video showing how this tech could work in the future, but the rosy picture it paints doesn’t change the fact that if you interconnect your phone calls, social networking, real time collaboration and augmented reality with objects into one device or into essentially cloud computing with terminals...... you provide the means for someone (whether government, corporate, or private criminal) to quite literally observe every minute of your life.
Anyone who thiks this is a good idea is patently insane. Human beings need a certain amount of personal space, liberty, and freedom to think what they want to think.
By having this much information connected all at once about people, you truly can make educated guesses about “What they were thinking about” yesterday afternoon and pre-crime them ala Minority Report.
And you could do it easily. This isn’t science fiction anymore. If these systems are built this way, you can do it. Facebook already gets us far too close.
NFC technology has it’s place, but on a credit card is NOT it. I like RFID for specific applications and most of the fear and hype is way overblown, but an NFC credit card is an unnecessary - and STUPID - risk that increases the potential for identify theft massively without any corresponding benefit.
As the dude in this video says, all he’s got to do is get near your ass with his $8 reader and you’ve been had. Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmajlKJlT3U
The many ways that the Antichrist will control everyone on the planet is becoming more and more clear.
Everything is in the process of being set up for him to walk in and begin his appointed role in the wrap-up of this age.
Everything is in the process of being set up for him to walk in and begin his appointed role in the wrap-up of this age.
I've worked for the Telecom Industry for the last 13 years and we've known about this kind of possibility for decades. The only problem was a lack of processing power in a small enough package to be able to pull this off successfully. Now that smart phones are becoming so advanced, that hurdle is gone.
I used to tell people that you should never say anything around a cell phone that you didn't want to be repeated, but now I don't see any way away from this technological encroachment short of becoming a Luddite and living completely off the grid and even that's not a sure thing any longer.
Thanks for the ping CN. It’s going to get interesting as time goes on. The denials and reasoning’s will be equally as interesting.
Everything is in the process of being set up for him to walk in and begin his appointed role in the wrap-up of this age.
I don't care, neither my wife, my kids, nor I will be here. Anyone stupid enough to ignore Christ deserves to be left behind.
Go ye out to meet Him! However, if he tarries, we must occupy and be support for each other.
There are a few physical details missing here. (Oh - I design RFID chips for a living...)
Most RFID is indeed NOT secure.
It takes a credit-card sized antenna to power the little “half=grain of rice” sized RFID chip. That being the case, RIFD won’t be “everywhere.”
It doesn’t work well when the RFID+antenna is sitting on a piece of metal. So putting your card in a metal box will really work (it’s called a faraday cage for those who care..)
There are RFID parts that have security features that are significant, i.e. encryption. They don’t cost $0.01 though. They cost $1.00+
You need to use the right technology for the particular application. Putting a standard non-encrypted RFID device on a credit card is simply stupid.
Yes, while we are here, but before the anti-Christ takes power, Born Again Christians are raptured out of here.
Those who refuse to surrender to Christ and find themselves any where other than heaven have no one to blame but them self.
SOPA regulations may put a damper on a lot of this stuff by destroying much of the reasons folks wish to be internet connected. Look for congress to do a “revamp” should the elites really want these connected control schemes to come into fruition.
I sure hope Christ returns for us before the Mark of the Beast takes effect. - I don’t know what all happens during this time, but we just have to look up or else we will feel scared of all the awesome things to come.
I’ve been watching Ervin Baxter’s (and other’s) teachings on Bible prophecy on tv; and it’s interesting. Any way you look at it, the end times are NOW.
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