The potential for political abuse is monumental. Who here doesn't believe Obama won't piously remind everyone with a crackberry to go vote?
I grow weary of it all.
Good point. The first time somebody tries to put a chip in my phone, the phone goes in the garbage can. I already don’t fly.
Little by little they will force us off the grid, where we can’t communicate except in the good old-fashioned person-to-person way. All the hip little communicators can stay plugged in until they forget how to use their brains.
THX1138 was a masterpiece and George Lucas a genius—except when I watched it a few years ago they had deleted the part about the elementary school teachers. Oh well, that didn’t turn out to be too prescient anyway, did it?
If there weren't other purposes they wouldn't make the chips mandatory. There is no valid reason for making this mandatory. If you want this "service" it should be voluntary. I have a cache of slightly used Motorola GSM phones I picked up dirt cheap a while back. I won't be carrying one of these new phones with the chip for many years unless they force a phase out the older phones.