Something I'd thought about on and around a recent surgery, is that given the fact that any surgery requiring general anesthesia is an opportunity to embed a device into your body in a way that only a second surgery could remove, or a similar opportunity even a fully-conscious acquisition of dental fillings provides (I had a couple a few years back that required casting, out-of-office manufacturing, then installation a week or so later,) and given the fact of what the voyeur-pervs at the NSA have been doing, extra-Constitutionally and with impunity, with the rest of our privacy...

At risk of the accusation of paranoia, there is really nothing standing in the way of the current U.S. Administration's implanting devices into anyone it wants to monitor, without their knowledge or consent, right now.

Under Obamacare, doubly so.

The doctor in charge of your chart would certainly be an obstacle, but the government can bring an incredible amount of coercive pressure to bear, particularly on someone who's an upstanding professional with a well-established life, career and family.

So yes, as JLC said, unless there's a catastrophic collapse of technology (virtually impossible,) the only choice we have in this matter is to reclaim the people intellectually, and end Gangster Government via an intellectual sea change.

Given decades of the Republican "leadership" conceding to militant collectivists the education of generations of Americans, and given that educational corruption's metastasizing under Communist Core, the outlook looks pretty grim, at least for the better part of this coming century.

On that note, some cathartic rock 'n' roll from Mr. Rundgren and the boys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOymRNFrP...
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I'm right there with you on this AJ. My body is a "no-go zone" for gov't intrusion. They'll have to kill me first.

I think it would be easy to remove the RFID from your body and then just band-aid it to the surface of your body somewhere. That way, you will appear to be normal but be able to disappear whenever you want to by popping it in a band-aid box. Neat.

Jan

Whoa, these guys read your book... And acted on it!!! Freaky!! Life imitating art. I would just say "NO", emphatically. I am capable of engaging in my life without such a thing.

I cannot imagine this ever coming to pass. With biometrics/facial recognition improving on a daily basis, along with the proliferation of "security" cameras everywhere, it is not and never will be necessary to implant a chip in anyone. Your face, the slope of your ears, your stance or gait....those are already used to "track" significant numbers of people (casinos use facial recognition equipment to recognize cheaters and card-counters, to use one example).

As one poster noted below, it would be all too easy to remove an implanted chip. But you can't change the distance between your pupils. Granted, most cameras are above eye level now, so broad-brimmed hats most likely provide some protection. But that is bound to change. I can just imagine the rationale....terrorists are buying groceries, so the new cameras are FOR YOUR PROTECTION....

Side Issue ?: Chipping has been tied to bone cancer in dogs, said an article a while back. I sent it to friends in Texas who own, breed and show
Akitas. They do not chip their dogs, but one
which they bought directly from Japan had been
chipped prior to departure; she was also the
only one who died of bone cancer a few years
later. Co-incidence ?

Just more techno-phobia.

There is always an option. Whether they will believe is their problem not mine. Just sayin'

Years ago (before Kurtzweil) I wrote a paper on "self initiated evolution", predicting that technology would eventually (and inevitably) lead to a very different human family. We will eventually have the genetically engineered, made up of the "perfect", with long life, near absolute immunity from disease, etc.; the bionics, enhanced by a marriage of technology and biology; the "autonics", who are nothing but robots that have reached the level of emotion and intelligence that we would consider sentient; and the "statics", who resist technology "help". The process is seductive - witness how many have become slaves to a device as seemingly harmless as the cell phone.

Newborns are given SSNs; this is just the next step.