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This would be a dystopia almost by definition unless every single government is replaced in the interim.
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Submitted 6 months ago by ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 months ago
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You think so? I don’t know. I imagine a future where every child that is lost, or abducted is found within minutes due to tracking devices, like lo-jack for cars. I think it would be great. I know there are risks, but imagine a world that is safer for children.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If i had a dime for every time someone told me to think of the children. This has more potential to harm children than make them safer imo.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 months ago
I just think it's a very idealistic and unrealistic view of the likely outcomes. To use an extreme example: imagine applying the situation to a North Korea or Russia. Or the U.S., certainly. My point is that it would be the ultimate tool for stifling opposition and consolidating power, among many other things.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I wish the chips in pets worked like lo-jacks. You have to use a bulky collar tag if you want to track their whereabouts.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How is this a shower thought, this is just a weirdly specific prediction
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was thinking of how some employers have chipped their employees with RFID in the past, and it just made me consider the future of chipping.
sxan@midwest.social 6 months ago
Double-plus Good! Everyone will benefit from an increased reduction of ungood thought crimes.
OP is being arrested because the AI profiler has calculated an 89.8% chance of multiple future misdemeanors.
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I didn’t say anything about tracking thoughts; just location of a person.
sxan@midwest.social 6 months ago
OK, it’s not yet possible anyway.
BTW, a speeding ticket was mailed to your house because you were tracked exceeding the limit for the road you were on. You were also tracked as passing through an area known for frequent drug crimes, so now you’re on a watch-list as a high-probability illegal drug exchange suspect. Your insurance has been notified that you’ve been tracked engaging in risky activities, so your insurance premiums have increased. Based on your extrapolated sexual activity from collated data of yours and other’s data, that’s also increased your premiums; and since that’s flagged as “risky behavior,” the police database has been updated to increase your “potential suspect” rating, which will be used if you’re ever in the vicinity of a crime when it was committed.
As icing on the cake, all of your location tracking data is being sold to data brokers, for commercial interests to use in whatever way they see fit. It’s how the government funds all of these extra benefits you’re being provided!
Magickmaster@feddit.de 6 months ago
It’s a small step to corelate locations and thoughts with minimal processing. You’re at home when your network starts connecting to 4chan? - You’re a deviant. You frequent a bar that is a known gay meet up? - You’re a deviant You visited a location where a(n opposing) political rally was held? - You’re a deviant and now you’re also on the watch list.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
If that was the case, hella people would be removing the chip.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I hate this, but I speculate you are correct. Have a pinched-nose upvote.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 months ago
The people in power can finally kill and maim anyone who could ever oppose them more efficiently! Great! /s
Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Black Mirror S04E02 - Arkangel
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Good luck having freedom in that world
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The government probably would t have enough money to hire people to watch our chip movements 24/7. It would probably just be a tool to use as evidence in the case of a missing person, or for verifying alibis when crimes are reported. I could be wrong. You think someone would spend their 9AM-5PM watching your gps dot move on a map? Think there’s a man, or woman, to take the next shift and watch it stay in one spot, while you sleep? That would be tough to believe, unless you’re someone really important to the government; like the president.
Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
With the power of recording, AI and algorithms, mass surveillance is possible without having half of the population working for the government
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Who needs to constantly watch what you’re doing when the data can simply be collected and then used against you at a later time without your consent?
Also, what happens when laws change and suddenly your daily habits seem suspect? When it’s possible to figure out what people were together at a certain time and place, the government has unrivaled power and we’ve seen how that plays out multiple times. See: literally any Edward Snowden interview.
If you are genuinely arguing that you would be undisturbed by the future you put forward, I am uninterested in your opinion on anything regarding privacy or freedom.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Na, power is still an issue. It takes far more power to transmit a location than it does for a device to receive and store a location.
It may be able to piece together events afterwards but not be able to do stuff in real time.A_A@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just integrate a fuel cell using bloods’ sugar and its oxygen. This device will also improve medical monitoring, interface with your neural link & much more. Win, win, win !
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
People are downvoting me on this one, but everyone has a phone that already tracks their GPS coordinates every second of the day (it’s used by your fitness tracker apps, for steps). You probably have your phone in you pocket, or your hand, all day, while it tracks your every step and location. Now, just imagine that tracker is in your body, just after birth. Not a whole phone, but just a small chip.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 6 months ago
No benefits, the phone is my communication and entertainment device, the tracking is a side effect, or vice versa if you ask the government.
I would be ripping that out quicker than Fry
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Run free software (no google)
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
So I can just kill someone and steal their chip and commit perfect ID theft?
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not if it contains tech for monitoring a person’s vitals, like an Apple Watch. As soon as their vitals are critical, EMS would be dispatched to their coordinates, and police could see what other chips are near the victim.
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Everything eventually gets hacked and spoofed. Fake the signal and one would know you died.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The chip won’t let you think that way
ptz@dubvee.org 6 months ago
Just gonna leave this here: Black Mirror - Arkangel
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oooh great episode
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And when they grow up many a divorce will happen, after one spouse tracks the other spouse to a third parties abode.
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So many people have downvoted my post, but none of them are shunning their fancy smartphones; all of which are equipped with location services that enables the phone to be tracked by GPS, to their exact coordinates.
What a terrible shower though, they must think, as they scroll my post with their smartphone, and it tracks their exact location.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I’m waiting for the mind control. Before long you will simply be incapable of worry or thinking wrong thoughts.
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I just want a microchip in my children that tracks their location and vitals, with immediate reports to EMS if their vitals are at critical levels. That’s all.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s no reason to chip anyone when almost everyone already carries a tracking and listening device in their pocket, and facial recognition cameras can pick up your location in real time and even report on what mood you’re in.
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
At least you have the option to ditch your phone to live in the woods like big foot, but a chip would require a way to cut it out of yourself like surgery.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That seems sus