"CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little attention to itself - until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.
To some, the microchip was a wondrous invention - a high-tech helper that could increase security at nuclear plants and military bases, help authorities identify wandering Alzheimer’s patients, allow consumers to buy their groceries, literally, with the wave of a chipped hand.
To others, the notion of tagging people was Orwellian, a departure from centuries of history and tradition in which people had the right to go and do as they pleased without being tracked, unless they were harming someone else.
Chipping, these critics said, might start with Alzheimer’s patients or Army Rangers, but would eventually be suggested for convicts, then parolees, then sex offenders, then illegal aliens - until one day, a majority of Americans, falling into one cate
gory or another, would find themselves electronically tagged." LINKAnd speaking of Orwell, the surveillance society he forsaw is here. Welcome, Big Brother!
Foresight: The cameras crowd George Orwell's former London home
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