The rise of microchipping... Skynet has begun

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.
 
I would never get a microchip...that's a bit too far.

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.

I agree with this.

They exist to occupy your mind, make loads of money off you and aren't needed at all.

I don't agree with this. Smartphones are very useful...instant access to unlimited information from anywhere, multiple methods of communication, etc. The smartphone industry also has created millions of jobs (think of all the areas...hardware, software, apps, phone stores, networking, etc.). Sure, some people are too addicted to their phones but that's the case with almost anything.
 
My phone now pops up a thing from Google and says:

Hi, I'm Your Google Assistant.

Tell me how I can help?

Listening...


So, I'm yelling at it, "Turn off Google Assistant!

I've done this many times... But of course it will not Turn off, or Cancel, or Block, or Uninstall or Close... I've told it many things with no success.

I asked my Millennial college kids at work if they knew how to turn it off... of course they all have Apple Phones, I'm an Android. So in the time we had, we could not get it... I'm gonna "google" it and see how to turn off google on an LG. :ninja:

If google's listening... no telling who's listening. :fingerwag::fingerwag::fingerwag::fingerwag:

I don't have my phone with me much... so google is not gonna know much... but a chip in my body? Not if I can help it! :tapfoot2::tapfoot2:

I don't even have a tattoo.
 
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