{"id":607,"date":"2006-01-29T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2006-02-01T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T19:02:51","slug":"you-scramble-my-arphid-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"You Scramble My Arphid, Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interesting stuff in Bruce Sterling&#8217;s latest post (<a href=\"http:\/\/wiredblogs.tripod.com\/sterling\/index.blog?entry_id=1400328\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) re: the ongoing adventures of VeriChip Corporation&#8217;s efforts to use RFID chips to tag and track the world; maybe even the whole universe. Only they seem to have a few hurdles&#8230; like cloning, MRI&#8217;s and maybe some sloppy record-keeping. Anyone else noticing how this technology, most often associated with tracking simple <em>stuff<\/em>, is sounding more and more like something out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074812\/\" target=\"blank\"><em>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Remember that post of mine from a ways back when I talked about being able to build a killswitch into virtual objects so that they simply vanish (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=476\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a> &#8211; in case you don&#8217;t)? Well&#8230; uh&#8230; what&#8217;s stopping someone from illegally pirating\/cloning these things and doing exactly that on real people using a time-released or remotely-administered poison? Forget spiked Kool-aid, life is a Carousel, old chum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of interesting stuff in Bruce Sterling&#8217;s latest post (Link) re: the ongoing adventures of VeriChip Corporation&#8217;s efforts to use RFID chips to tag and track the world; maybe even the whole universe. Only they seem to have a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}