ID chips and cyborg -> becoming a robot?!

This virtual life(second life, whole cyborg thing) and ID chips in human body.. They scared me ..
I think human more likely to become a robot. we can programming ourselves, maybe in the future, some people will have remote control to stimulate part of their body, (turn it on and off their ID chips.. ?!)

ways of presenting ourselves online is in control, ways of how we look from birth is out of control..
cyborg is living being, not a human being..?

I found a interesting power point (can't remember where I get it from so can't reference.. but if you google it up, you may find it), and in this powerpoint, it defines the cyborg = 'cybernetic organism'

more about the cybernetic and how this theory describes a funny equation
Cybernetic equation human=machine ,

Click this site, -> Cybernetics

For this cyborg issue, it will change ever as our revolution of technology will keep going..

The picture above is called 'hawking-cyborg'. I guess Hawking is some shorten name of the owner of the cyborg?
A-ma-zing idea!

Okay, about 'microchipping people', as I mentioned in my previous blog post,
I wouldn't try on human body. I mean implanting ID chip might be convenient(like, in the international air port, it will save time for every one.. I don't like to lining up in a long que, holding my passport but still, implant ID chip is something I wouldn't trust)

I don't like the idea that even people who carry ID chips in their body knows what kind of information is stored in their ID chip, maybe at the end of the day there will be a power or control system.. What if the centre-system secretly put some information into ID chip that we don't want to be read, you never know..

And.. I just realized how expensive to get ID chip implantation! Read this article, 'Implantable chips, on sale now'
holy molly ~ it is expensive~ rice-size ID chip implantation costs $200 in US.. so.. in NZ roughly $400? (bit less than that? )
Health care institution already planned for this ID chips ?!

All these ID chips and cyborg ideas get me thinking that human is becoming a robot? (you may not understand what i mean.. Robot, computerize human body, mechanisms and control by some other centre computer.. )

p.s Gee.. I want to see bright side of them... ;D
Even these two (ID chips and cyborg) are not diseases/ medications, I always think of some 'side effect' ..not main purposes..

Convergence of mobile technologies

Convergence of mobile technologies sounds complicated. Not so easy as I thought!

Check this article, where have all the iPhones gone?

It makes me laugh that Vodafone company has no idea whether the iPhone would be coming into New Zealand or not. One of my friend bought iPhone version1 sometimes in October last year via eBay. (There was a guy who decode the region code(something like region code for retailer) in US so my friend could use it in NZ ) Sorry Vodafone, there is always some other ways to get things so don't bother to be worried :D

RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)! It sounds super convenient for merchandise . With RFID, all the data can stored in little electronic tags stored in products. If you want to watch this video (how RFID works for retailers), -> "Technology video" It is from the Youtube, general information about RFID.

Not only for product/goods, also for the tracking of the animals (for farmers, animals can be considered as 'product' .. anyway.. ) , RFID tags has been used.

HOWEVER, NOT FOR HUMAN! I DO NOT THINK RFID SHOULD USE FOR HUMAN BODY!
Let RFID it be! stay for their original purpose! not transform into 'human bar code' system in the future! please respect the human human body,autonomy!

when I heard abouth implantation of RFID tags into the human body, I thought it is really scary idea! Wherever they insert the little chip, that means the person who carries RFID chip all the time will be lock himself/herself into such a small tracking devices! Who ever wants to do that!
I found one! B-) tada~ RFID implant
It is from Fox News! (Gees, This man is as freaky as the Fox News! , I mean I am really sorry to say this, but this man from the video said the reason why he implanted RFID chip under his skin is "it is convenient! For example, he doesn't need to carry his passport all the time? .. )

Has anyone ever watched the movie "Island" ( Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson ). In the beginning of the movie, I remember when Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) woke up, he scan his wrist (electronic chips underneath). In someway, when I watch the RFID implant video clip (above) , it brought me a few scenes (that the Lincoln Six-Echo has to scan his wrist all the time when he enter some places) from the movie, "Island".


Convergence culture seems handy, and sounds like we are all looking forward to seeing the next step of this 'simpleness' (such as mobile convergence! laptop + phone + txt+ camera + dairy + TV+ radio+ mp3 player .... = one simple and fancy mobile? )

When I think of what our lives will be in ten years later, huge amount of information will be still come out and more simplified devices will help us to store and process them?

Surveillance :Pros & Cons? in what surveillance! By who? <1>

On the left, this is my facebook profile page. Maybe I was making an excuse to do 'facebook'. but anyway..


Have you ever realize you were being observed or 'under surveillance' unwillingly?
No matter what reason, we are breathing with surveillance! It is unavoidable. When it comes to 'surveillance' in general, it gives me the idea of 'protection', 'pro-active protection'? '. I mean, for example, CCTV at the parking lot, camera at the 24 hour computer labs at university, speed camera on highway, things like that. We never thought or realize "IT WAS THERE BEFORE YOU GOT CAUGHT OR TILL SOMETHING HAPPEN". Then when you realize you were being under surveillance, before you knew, they already finished their homework! *Zing!* I don't know for some reason, I can take this as really lame example to describe.. often in 'CSI' (forensics involved to solve crimes) or 'Numb3rs' (FBI! yeah! they can tract down whatever they need to get work done and they often take 'cctv tape' from crime scene before/after and going through every single detail to catch 'the bad guy'). In numb3rs, (yes, I am a big fan of Numb3rs! meh, I know it is not that realistic), they often obtain suspects' email contents/history. I can going on and on about this but, I will move on to the internet surveillance!


Surveillance in cyberspace, peer-to-peer surveillance is positively acceptable(?) as long as you have a boundaries(privacy set up). The facebook has this 'mini feed' thing that I got bit surprised.->Like.. 'Boa wrote a msg on Tom's wall' or 'Boa Kim and 'Will Smith' are now friends/ 'Boa Kim comments on Helen Clark's photo
(this is just a example!), At some stage, I changed my privacy set 'news and mini feed' up again. So now it only shows changed history of my status.
Apart from interpersonal surveillance, this 'ECHELON' made me wonder how can I find them?
I have bookmarked and honestly, read very first paragraph of this website, ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network.

And this reading, ECHELON gives you a vaious useful resources/sources links about it. (plus, the web-page has a pretty map (not in English, I think it is in German!!!! and well, four agencies in the UKUSA system??? )

I am in half in sleep so going to bed now. :D

Next time I can finish the readings of the two above, and get some opinions on them!

night night!