When did getting microchipped like a family pet become trendy and futuristic?

[Pangolin]

It just seems like extra steps when you can just use your pocket computer.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUqCn9uXRfA

 

[Anova3]

There's a push from marketing and from consumers to make purchasing things as streamlined as possible.
They're going to sell it as a way to both buy things and identify yourself in one swipe without having to carry a wallet. Hell, maybe even some future car designs will incorporate using it as a key. Imagine a world where you can wear whatever and you no longer even need pockets because what would you put in them? (Your phone maybe, but odds are you've got a hand dedicated to holding that in front of you anyway.)
That's the best possible sales angle.
The ramifications of this, obviously include things like:

• health issues from having a small transmitter embedded under your skin that broadcasts a dozen times per day or more
• even less friction on purchases to further divorce the idea of ownership from work and pay
• rampant identity theft because RFID chips are simple to duplicate and can be read from a distance without the owner knowing
• even more big-brother-watching-you-always because your location and information will get picked up everywhere you go, at least in cities and more well-developed areas

Just to name a few issues.

That said, I would probably cut mine back out if they ever got mandated and I would have it embedded in a glove or bracelet I just wouldn't take off most of the time. Until then, just inform anyone you know of the dangers of this kind of tech. They've been pushing it for over a decade and it hasn't caught on much yet. Let's see to it that it stays out of our daily lives.

 

[SpeedSleek]

It just seems like extra steps when you can just use your pocket computer.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUqCn9uXRfA

What a fucking demonic idea. I keep thinking maybe the future won't be so bad and then shit like this comes up. What other unholy crap will you people dig up to give me night terrors when I try to think about what life will be like in the next decade?

 

[Deadchief1175]

B-but Zoe Quinn did it and she is based and Gamerpilled.

Sorry for using Kotaku, It's all I could find in a pinch. personally don't get why you would do this, but had a discussion the other night about how eventually this stuff will be like the new boob job or nose job. The Augments we do now still have a stigma but just wait till we start equipping Mastercard fingers and Robo COCKS.

 

[MySpace Tom]

I would probably cut mine back out if they ever got mandated

I don't know if it would even get this far. People would certainly reciprocate the mandate by installing lead in a few skulls though

 

[Punp]

Soyboys are already queueing up for human testing for Musky's brain chip. This microchip thing has been around for a while, with people putting them in the webbing between thumb and forefinger for door passes, or ones in their arms to sense seismic activity across the world to be """closer to mother earth""".

The more they can treat humans like cattle, the better they feel about eating the beef.

 

[imnotdeadyet]

Again this being the lamest cyberpunk timeline comes to mind. This chipping thing has been pushed for a while, I remember some high income countries (i think it was Scandinavians but don't hold me on that) having corpos that mandated their employees get these chips for "security and convenience" as a pathetic attempt to push this and that was back in 2010s.

I see 0 reason to embed what is essentially an NFC tag into my hand, finger, wrist, whatever when there are 100s of more convenient and way less intrusive ways to do the same thing. I've seen "early tech adopters" and the "yeah science" tards being hyped for this and pushing it. I think chipping will take a long time until it gets widely adopted enough for (you) and me to be coerced into getting one. In the meantime we can own nothing, rent "share" everything, give away our biometrics for a crypto pittance and be happy about it.

 

[Z0diacK]

What a awful idea, although yes it has been quite a thing now that has been pushed for some long time. Let the cattle of humans do it and chip themselves. I don't believe this will become mandatory, atleast not in my timeline yet (I hope). Social media makes you think the world is truly lost and everyone is quite retarded, but I tell you that the most retarded always gets the most spotlight.

 

[FacelessMan]

I don't know if microchipping will go big. In china, they have phones and even facepay (Your facial biometrics linked to bank account), maybe that could be more popular

 

[Anova3]

I'm honestly surprised we're not seeing QRCode tattoos used for stuff similar to this yet. Though I suppose being able to read it from any decent camera shot is a bit of a problem.

 

[alCannium27]

Microchipped? Nah -- but neural link is a solid maybe for me. But not right now tho, maybe in a decade or so, beats piloting a giant mecha with tubes inserted to the back of my cranium

Ok srsly, about pushing this in China -- I can't imagine even the most die-hard apple-head would do this if Steve Jobs rises from the grave and pushes for it. Indeed paying by QR code (WeChat) and facepay is so widespread, the extra hussel of getting a chip implanted is simple too much work (and extra expenditure), not to mention a general distrust in "western" tech. I am more surprised that there hasn't appear to be a NFC-pay service, since NFC is equally widespread (mostly as a way to share magnetic keycards but ID cards also works), it seems to me rather trivia to have both WeChat Pay (or "WePay"? SMH) and Alipay integrated into it, so people won't even need to open the apps to pay.

 

[MySpace Tom]

I'm honestly surprised we're not seeing QRCode tattoos used for stuff similar to this yet. Though I suppose being able to read it from any decent camera shot is a bit of a problem.

Plus you could mess them up with a sharpie or just with bad skin

 

[Punp]

Plus you could mess them up with a sharpie or just with bad skin

By "bad skin" do you mean "being black"? Because that's an excellent way to fuck a QR tattoo.

 

[alCannium27]

By "bad skin" do you mean "being black"? Because that's an excellent way to fuck a QR tattoo.

QR code can be generated with different styles, . It's the geometric shape that matters, I've seen QR codes with red background and white lines work just fine; actually, look up that AI generated QR code thingy where the code is embedded inside a colored image, which can be a person, scenery, or whatever else. The open-sourced QR code generator alone supports several color schemes.

If one has to tattoo QR codes on their body, and they have dark skintones, just tattoos the bars white. But I fail to see why since most QR code provided by payment services expire in a rather short period of time for the specific reason of theft protection. Only payment codes can be permanent, since, ya know, money can going go in the account of the QR code owner in this case.

 

[Punp]

QR code can be generated with different styles, . It's the geometric shape that matters, I've seen QR codes with red background and white lines work just fine; actually, look up that AI generated QR code thingy where the code is embedded inside a colored image, which can be a person, scenery, or whatever else. The open-sourced QR code generator alone supports several color schemes.

If one has to tattoo QR codes on their body, and they have dark skintones, just tattoos the bars white. But I fail to see why since most QR code provided by payment services expire in a rather short period of time for the specific reason of theft protection. Only payment codes can be permanent, since, ya know, money can going go in the account of the QR code owner in this case.

White ink doesn't last as long as black ink. White ink can start to fade as quickly as 45 to 60 days, and QR codes need sharp, defined patterns to remain readable. Coloured ink doesn't show as well on dark skin.

look up that AI generated QR code thingy where the code is embedded inside a colored image, which can be

Opinion immediately invalid.

 

[alCannium27]

Opinion immediately invalid.

May A.I. replace the obsolete humanity, glory to the machine

 

[Punp]

> On a thread about how big tech is trying to invade your life and mind with a gimmick
> Soy pointing at AI like it's not big tech trying to invade your life and mind with a gimmick
> """look up that AI generated QR code thingy where the code is embedded inside a colored image, which can be a person, scenery, or whatever else""" but unironically

 

[Punp]

Makin' me feel inspired as fuck.

 

[pronoundisrespecter]

All this electronic bullshit is so lame and unnecessary

 

[Some_porcupine]

What a fucking demonic idea. I keep thinking maybe the future won't be so bad and then shit like this comes up. What other unholy crap will you people dig up to give me night terrors when I try to think about what life will be like in the next decade?

Not seeing the vid just to not vomit and I know from next convo what's it about
Don't read 3001 space oddysey (final)(written 1997. Mind you, A Clarke was in Club similar to Club of Rome or WEF iirc, that's why he could know so lot about science, mention what tech might be onto etc.)
Also not only for chipping, but for that the ending is shit - I mean, the section leading to it too. Full book, nothing world rushing won't happen and then, in the 5/6 of book, threat comes out of nowhere. Hate when that happens on book. The implant, 1995 book, also does that. Eh...