Remember the movie "The Minority Report"? How whenever he walked by certain places, adverts geared specifically for him would play, and such? Everything was electronic. I can't remember whether it was chip or retinal scan based.
I don't like the idea of the veri chip.
I am not a criminal, but I STILL don't want the ability for that level of scrutiny over every single aspect of my life. It's none of anyone's business. I find it invasive and offensive.
I do think they are getting too close to too far with tracking. I waffle on this issue ... finding a kidnapped child quickly would be a blessing, finding a serial mutilator more quickly would be a blessing, having Big Brother know when and where I've decided to go get lost with a lover is NOT a blessing.
As for the mark of the beast, if you follow that religion, then I can see how something like this could be construed as such.
Infringement of our rights? If the issue is forced, most certainly.
Do I think they'll try and force something liek this in place of credit cards and checking accounts (don't forget cash)? Eventually. We're on the path towards this anyway. I am not fond of this idea either. It is yet another way to keep track of our purchases, regulate our expenditures, and one more way to make any of our earnings that much more theoretical. There would be no more splitting a hundred bucks between friends to help with a move, it would be marked and taxed as income for them. No more paying your neighbors son and his friends under the table to help build your fence for the same reason.
Then again, it would be more difficult, as a society, to get ourselves impossibly in debt. Possibly.
=/ Bad Veri chip. Bad Big Brother.
