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Hey
Green Bay! Well, March has come and gone and I am as sick
of snow as I possibly could be. I was recently in Florida
where it was 85 degrees and sunny. What a change that I
had to come back to this, ice and snow storms in March.
It was the first time I had been on a plane since the attacks.
I was pretty impressed with the security, and the safety
technology they had. For those of you who travel on a daily
or weekly basis, you're used to the X-ray machines and random
bag searches. Soon they'll be able to scan your entire identity
from medical conditions to traffic ticket violations.
What is going on with technology lately? I have been raised
in such a diverse world that is constantly generating knowledge
towards a "better future." Our techno-based society has
finally come to survey ethics, morals, and mother nature
itself. Those movies we watched with such cynicism such
as "Total Recall" or the more recent "AI: Artificial Intelligence"
are now becoming more of a reality. Will we soon be over-populated
by the very technology we gave birth to? It's a catch 22;
without the technology we have today we would not be able
to treat the illnesses and disease that would very well
destroy us. Yet we continue to look for the bigger and better
ways to improve an artificial being with intelligence superior
or equivalent to ours own. Could you imagine more Britney
Spears or Tom Greens running around? We're not that far
from that; somehow they found a way to fool mother nature
and create the ability to clone a human. To be honest that
is freakin' scary. Trust me the world can't handle more
of me nor more of anyone else I know. And there is always
that "American way" of letting it get in the wrong hands.
Can you imagine the chaos of more than one bin Laden?
Back to the security thing, have you heard of the Digital
Angel? It's a personal tracking and recovery system that
can be implanted into humans. It has a miniature digital
transceiver and can last for years without any maintenance.
It can be inserted under the skin in your arm, hip, or shoulder.
The transceiver sends and receives data and can be tracked
continuously with Global Positioning Satellite technology.
Some parents have already taken the extreme to monitor their
kids and put a tracking device in their cars, which can
monitor their location on the Web any time. With the Digital
Angel, they can detect medical emergencies as it has the
ability to watch your heart rate. The hope is to one day
be rushed to the hospital and all they would do is scan
your arm and "poof" your entire medical history appears
on their screen. No more insurance papers and questions
from the nurses such as "Are you allergic to any medications?"
Again, if in the wrong hands it can violate our privacy.
Anybody could find out all of your personal information
and use that to their own no good. They are pushing these
beneficial attributes: providing a tamper-proof means of
locating and identifying individuals from e-business and
e-commerce security, locating individuals (including children
who have been lost or abducted), monitoring medical conditions,
tracking and locate military, diplomatic and other essential
government personnel, determining the location or the authenticity
of valuable property, and last but not least tracking those
risk-taking sports enthusiasts.
It's all scary to me but you make your own decision. Is
the good of all of these technology break-throughs worth
the risk of losing our identity and privacy privileges we
have in the United States of America?
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