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[ReamusLQ]

Would you do this?

I sure as heck know I would! I think it sounds so cool!

And cheap too, not over priced like most new techonology things are.

[Sebatianos]

Seen Logan's Run lately? IF not I suggest you watch it - great movie. It warned about this sort of thing long before an average mortal would even know what a chip is

[Quintopotere]

RFID chips could be useful to control (with a GPS) where your children (or your girlfriend) go!
I'm not so interested in opening doors or logging to my PC...

[ReamusLQ]

Originally posted by Sebatianos@Jan 10 2006, 08:25 AM
Seen Logan's Run lately? IF not I suggest you watch it - great movie. It warned about this sort of thing long before an average mortal would even know what a chip is

Yeah I've seen it.

"Look! It's turned clear!" <laughter in Logan's general direction> "No, it has! Look!"

It also had that really crazy Cat guy who quoted the Cat poems.

[WaAn]

It's just a gadget. Not useful. But maybe, if they add some more useful things...

[Fruit Pie Jones]

Not yet I wouldn't. Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to create a portable reader that would grab data off of other people's chips without their knowledge - when you shook hands with them, maybe. Once you've got the data, it couldn't be too hard to duplicate the operation of the chip, and hey, you're in someone else's house/car/computer/etc. That's my biggest concern. If it's taken care of, yeah, I'd consider it.

EDIT: Typo

[omg]

1 step closer to sci fi land.
wont be long untill people really are chopping peoples hands off to get acsess to doors.

cool k:

[Sebatianos]

Well, all I can really say about this is the following:
The use of inventions to help people's lives is a common thing. That's what seperated humans from animal in the first place (inventing fire, weapons, cloathing, wheel,...) so with inventions we are mastering the world we couldn't at our current evolutionary level (we are speeding up evolution with technology). Is this good? Is this right? I don't know, but people have been doing this for ages.

But so the inventions used were more or less easily controlable and the user was the master of the things he used. Now, you're not anymore. Now you're using inventions to make using inventions (that are making your life easier) simpler. So you'd use this chip to make access to computers that you can use to do something with something. Soon people (at least the majority) will not even be able to function without a certain chip (and it's at that point that the world could turn into THE MATRIX).

[gregor]

personally i would like to see the chip that makes the blind see again come in to life.

They already did experiments and so far they managed to connect the chip with vision, so you could see smth but still very blurry and very bad. but hey they (theblind) saw something moving. it was made in such a way that chip was installed in the brain and connected to visual nerve. while you had data transmitted to it via optic fiber connected to special glasses which actually held a very tiny camera. was preety cool on pictures.

unfortunatelly the blind can't recognise anything (yet). the picture they were receiving wasn't clear enough.

Edit: using inventions to improve your self is "cheating" the evolotion law. which is cool. makes us different from animals.

[Chuck the plant]

Just like omg said: Stuff like this won't make ones life much safer because you can't have your keys or bank cards stolen anymore... it'll only become more likely that you get your hand cut off or your eye cut out so the robber can still do the same.

And if that's not reason enough: No, I won't play into anyone's hands and make it even easier for "them" to track my every step and virtually know EVERYTHING about me. I just ain't sci-fi-geek enough for that kind of stuff... and I don't really find it THAT bothersome to have my keys and cards with me...