Goodbye 2010. Hello 1984.

Anyone not caught up on their dystopian literature needn't bother trying. Instead, just pick up a current newspaper or open any technological news source on line where you'll be bombarded with real-life evidence that the most outrageous dystopia ever written about is the one we current live in.

Austin Carr of Fast Company wrote an interesting and disturbing piece today titled: Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World, Welcome Big Brother






What baffles me is how guy's like Carter discount concerns about the nightmarish future that products and the philosophies that introduce products like this bring to our world. It seems that in spite of knowing the negative impacts that will undoubtedly come of these scanners, development persists. Instead of asking themselves, how will this product harm mankind they seemingly ask, How can WE be the FIRST to get this to market?

This is a man with no moral conscious whatsoever. How else can you explain the quote,"When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in."