I am not going to be partial to one side or the other on this.
1. Would you you accept a microchip for medical identification?
2. Would you accept a microchip to aid in biological loss, ie: a chip to help with lost memories after a car accident?
3. Would you accept a chip to act as a google type system for the brain ie: you are mid conversation and someone says "discombobulatiing" in a sentence and your brain does a quick search to find a definition?
4. Would you ever accept any type of mandatory chip?
5. If chips are implanted in humans, who do you think should have access to the information on those chips and how would you suggest that be regulated?
6. If you believe it would be acceptable to use chips as a brain enhancing mechanism, ie: make you smarter, how would you suggest that humans could regulate this system. A potential problem here could be that your family cannot afford more advanced chips as other families and therefore would create a chip/class system. How would a family ever recover from this because if you do not have the most up to date chip you could not get high paying jobs and you would always be running older chips?
This is all going on right now. A police officer in my state of FL has taken an ID chip and so have many others in the US.
Is this good or bad? Cupcake: When you say tell them to wear a tag or whatever it's not that easy when a loved one has alzheimer's
to just dismiss the idea.
Also you say: "That's purely science fiction, to mesh a computer and a human together."
Watch Simulation Hypothesis on youtube. It's not impossible. As a matter of fact these are leading scientists talking about a merger of human and robot for the idea that it can "help us"
I'm not saying it's good or bad, just that it can and is being done. I wouldn't, for one reason. Once a chip is there you never know what it will be used for. People would need to now its workings and capabilities and that wouldn't be universally possible.
Governments can't be trusted not to pass on information to crooked third parties. Sounds like the "Mark of the Beast" to me. I'll pass on them all. I'll let them all be smarter than me and keep my integrity and be true to what I believe in.
The Amish way of life is looking better every day. Hard work, a simple life and a community that truly supports you and your neighbors. Talk about "green living". How about the way they live? When the meal is over there isn't a scrap left that needs to be "saved for later". Yes, for I love my lord Satan, and these are the end times. I would accept a chip if I was in a situation where there was a very high likelihood that I might need it. For example, if I was a soldier going into a war zone or an undercover cop on assignment and it could be used by my side to locate and/or identify me, I'd put up with a chip while I was deployed. If I had a complex, unusual and life-threatening medical condition, I might consider a chip. But just to let the ER know I had diabetes, or for basic identification? No way.
I'd wouldn't augment myself with a "google" or "memory augmentation" implant. I'll carry my gadgets separately, thanks. 1. I might. This would be like wearing one of those heart disease bracelets or something - if you had a heart attack, the doctors could just scan it and find the important information.
2. If a chip could restore lost memories, it could be removed as soon as it was done restoring them. If you mean, like repairing paralysis or fixing a stroke, I'd strongly consider a chip.
3. I might, if I was confident in the technology and its implementation.
4. No way. The government can't be trusted. Any system they implement - no matter how good it sounded at first - WILL be abused to the point that it does more to hurt the people than help. The Federal Reserve. The IRS. Social Security. Medicare. And soon, Universal Health Care.
5. For medical chips, obviously doctors should have access. For any kind of enhancement device (like in questions 3 and 6), only the implanted person should have access, or the ability to grant access to others.
6. I don't think the problem you pointed out is a problem. Socialists always complain about the divisions in society, but it's all relative. Just because some people have more, it doesn't mean that others have less. If people really became that much smarter through implants, society as a whole would improve. The slums of today might be a ghetto, but the "slums" of tomorrow will be a pleasant suburb. And socialists will still be complaining, because now the rich people are living on Jupiter's moons, and the oppressed poor people can't even afford a space-car. I don't understand how a brain - organic substance, can get info from a chip - unless you're talking about something like an ipod or electronic handheld dictionary you look up things on. Or do you mean there are blood vessels attached to the chip and cells like a living flesh chip, which doesn't exist, otherwise we'd have human robots. That's purely science fiction, to mesh a computer and a human together.
But to answer the rest of your question, no, I would not be in favor of a chip for any reason. If someone has memory problems, they can wear something like a doggy tag bracelet that lists their name, address, and doctor's phone number on it. Otherwise I'll either get it removed or use a magnet to deactivate it or whatever.
EDIT: As for Alzheimer's patients, it wouldn't be a bad idea to implant something like a GPS system, but even that, you don't need to implant it, you can have something like a chip-bracelet that you'd be able to track them on the computer, wherever they go. Implanting is permanent and seems too extreme. Even soldiers should get a GPS bracelet (my idea).
I've seen a documentary showing medical chips implanted, where someone's medical condition is written in miscroscopicly tiny print and using a machine it can be read through the skin... The program said the gov wants to implant chips to infants the moment they're born, kind of like a bar code, where info on them - their record both medical, criminal and everything else, can be added onto remotely, they can be tracked etc. and that chip is in the process of being in the works. These are our last years of freedom before we become 'chained' with them. |
