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Hello dystopian biological barcodes. Unknown to the baby and enforced by martial law.
by doublerabbit 2y ago
Hello dystopian biological barcodes.
Unknown to the baby and enforced by martial law.
- more_corn 2y agoThey are temporary biodegradable health sensors. This is not a technology that leads to autocracy. If anyone wants that they just tattoo. I’m not saying humans aren’t usually terrible, just that this particular technology doesn’t unlock any new or more nefarious terribleness.
- abathur 2y agoThey are talking about printing something on a variety of substrates including skin. We constantly shed skin. The powers-that-be in whatever dystopian mark-of-the-beast fantasy you're imagining would have to regularly reapply these sensors, so they wouldn't remain unknown for long. Any power apparatus capable of regularly and forcibly applying these sensors is certainly capable of just forcibly tattooing (or microchipping) you.
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- fellowniusmonk 2y agoThank you. For 40 years I've been hearing every benign or ultimately useful piece of tech get labeled as the mark of the beast or a "sign of the end times", I'm completely over the supernatural evil garbage. Tech can be misused and that's why democracy, privacy, etc. is crucial, but these people always make these weird/cheap/lazy, throwaway statements in a defeatist tone of predetermined supernatural evil. It's such learned helplessness. Meanwhile many municipalities in modern countries have done practical things like banned facial recognition from use by law enforcement. If it's a human source of evil we have human methods and forms of governance to address the potential issues, but these supernaturalist recommendations always seem to advocate that the solution is to vote in this one dude that is God's man. 40 years of this crap and they've been wrong or hyperbolic to the point of absurdity every damn time, all while eroding their own freedoms via the policies their chosen champions have passed any time a slightly real threat comes along.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoI don't think the thing preventing this level of control and tracking from currently existing is the lack of technology.
- iancmceachern 2y agoYou are the one thinking of evil uses, not them
- Minor49er 2y agoHistorians, skeptics, and sci-fi authors must all be evil-minded megalomaniacs
- colonelpopcorn 2y agoI can't think of a historian, skeptic, or sci-fi author who's had a level of power enough to disprove your statement.
- knome 2y agoThere's always L Ron Hubbard, but I'll assume he's a one off aberration, as very few sci-fi authors veered off into founding infamously belligerent religious cults. That said, the idea that people in power wouldn't think of ways to abuse pretty much any technology and that considering such things is some personal fault of @doublerabbit is quite the silly accusation for @iancmceachern to have made.
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- iancmceachern 2y agoHubbard is an example that proves the point, not a good dude. I wasn't comparing "people in power" to the parent commenter. I was comparing the study authors to the parent commenter. My point was, more globally, should we halt scientific progress because things could be used with bad intent to do bad? Where, and how, do we draw the line?
- Minor49er 2y agoWhat does level of power have to do with imagining possibilities?
- jjk166 2y agoWe've had tattoos for thousands of years.
- astrange 2y agoYou already shed unique identifiers everywhere you go in the form of your DNA, and if someone cares they can pick them up.