Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Would i ever get a chip?

I found it astounding to think that in some years to come that things will be automatically done for us, without us telling people what to do (starbucks example). i also find it a little creepy that people will be able to automatically view our bank accounts. I can say that i am one of those poeple who get money off my atm card, to ensure i know how much im spending and how much i have left. Otherwise i find i overbuy and im broke!!but i do agree with Erika that for health issues it would be fantastic. That way from birth your blood type etc would all be on this chip. And it would update your health status everytime you enter a hospital. For example it could update health problems so if you go into hospital, the staff just scan you for quick and efficent results. I do think there are more cons than pros though. For example Erika stated last week that boys from Norway were creating and changing id tags so they could buy cheap computers. I think information on creating and altering id tags shouldnt be avaliable as these people are the ones that would ruin this great inovation. I though of another good idea (As long as people dont interfere with id tags) is that everytime you enter a country you would get your id tag swiped. whether its was going past the boarder of a state or country or an airport, this would ensure the airport ran efficiently and busy american airports wouldnt constantly be held up due to retina and finger print scans. But getting to my main point, once you were scanned it would come up with your name, country etc, and criminals on the run either by car or plane, would be caught faster due to their id tag would be located almost instantly. but ultimatly i feel more research would have to be done in order for me to agree to being chipped. This is similar to last weeks blogs, the way i see it, the chips benefits would need to significantly outway the cons in order for me to consider getting chipped.

2 comments:

Nicole said...

i agree with you about the benefits of i.d. chips for health issues as i am allergic to a certain type of antibiotics and can never remember what they are called so imagine people with loads of allergies and health conditions it would be an efficient and effective way to keep track, but like you said more pros than there are cons and it could create an easier way to steal someones identity by altering or duplicating tags so yeah right now im defiantly apposed to the idea!

Eugene said...

I was in class when there was only 3 of us there and we were talking about different concept of chipping and so on. I reckon chipping is a good idea but I do not think our generation is too incline to place chips within out bodies!! but the possibilities is quite freaky!!