Are human chip implants a good idea?
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Are human chip implants a good idea?
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I really think it is for medical reasons only.
Wait, there is no definition on what these chips are doing. You can't just ask if human chip implants are a good idea. Are they tracking devices to help save kidnapped children? or are they microphones the government will use to track how many times I say bomb in an airplane? Do they log and transmit important medical information helping me to predict and lessen a heart attack? Or are they systematically removing sections of my memory regarding an ex-girlfriend I nor longer wish to remember.
Sure they are a great idea…. unless they are a bad idea…. this is only half of an important question.
NO . . . and not only no but absolutely no!
You got to stop and think about all this in teerms of our Bill of Rights – specifically our right to privacy!
Start putting "chips" into people and we stop being individuals and start being just another number.
Just my not-so-humble opinion. B)
But papadawg, no one has even defined what this chip is doing. What if they've developed a chip which emits a magnetic radiation that inhibits cancer growth in all humans? Just a devil's advocate here.
No, I don’t care what they ‘say’ it’s supposed to do, it may inhibit cancer but it’s invading my privacy, whether they say it or not they have a chip in my body that they can do whatever they want with. I would rather take my chance with dieing of cancer and living life on my terms, than possibly dieing from cancer. Maybe I’m just narrow minded but I like my life as it is, why is a chip neccessary?
Magnetic radiation inhibiting cancer growth?
Are you serious?
I don't care what the justification may be, once you insert a chip you are no longer a person because you have lost your privacy. If you know anything about electronic programming then you know that a small chip can hold up to four gigabytes of info or instructions. Sorry pard, I disagree.
Obviously I'm not serious about what it would do papadawg. But my point is this debate is only half a question. I know as well as you magnetic radiation isn't inhibiting cancer but I'm using it as a what-if scenario. I assume though that it wouldn't change your mind regarding your desire to not have it in you.
Oh yeah I'm well aware of the storage size of microchips. I work with them and their shifty programmers every single monday-friday.
BUT if there was some amazing medical advancement in microchip form, I think I might very well go for it.
They can be used for a variety of reasons. There's always going to be drawbacks in every situation.
This is because of the baby-boomers are afraid of change since they didn't grow up around technology like we are. Those chips can do good, especially for medical reasons.
Yea well they say 25% of us are going to get it sometime in our life so I really don't think we have that much to lose.
Psssst, Jared . . . it was OUR generation that INVENTED the microchip!
Our generation also invented the Internet . . . NOT Al "Huggatree" Gore!
Our generation also invented the PC.
Nope, we didn't grow up around technology like you are . . . WE INVENTED EVERY SINGLE BIT OF IT!
Sheesh! Ya just gotta stop drinking the Kool-Aide, there, kid! :S o.0
Uh, Jared, who is "THEY"?
I don't want to split hairs and all, BUT although your generation invented the microchip, it NEVER EVER would have existed without the solid-state transistor. The work oh Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley (haha) in 1947, the earlier generation paved the way for everything that came after. So while I agree that your generation built the PC, and laid the groundwork on the internet, none of that technology would exist without the efforts of what we now call: "The Greatest Generation"
The PC, is merely an application of transistors (in the millions) all working in tandem! It's truly amazing if you really know how they work!
I would support a GPS enabled tracking chip implanted in repeat sex offenders and career criminals. They would forfeit their privacy rights by choosing a life of crime.