Edible drug-tracking microchips to be unveiled in UK by year's end

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Edible drug-tracking microchips to be unveiled in UK by year's end

Imagine a world where the government monitors everything you eat and drink, and makes sure you take all your pharmaceutical drugs by feeding you an edible microchip that transmits this compliance information remotely to authorities. Such a world is almost a reality, as a California-based biotechnology company is about to unveil an edible microchip tracking device in the UK that monitors patients' compliance with prescribed drug regimes, and sends this information to family members and caretakers.​
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The technology is very interesting. In a society I would encourage an Opt-In type of system. It'd be great to know if my Dad was taking his Alzehimers meds, for example. It could ensure the Old Folks home isn't taking my cash and not doing their jobs.

However, as we've seen in Florida Republican Governor the demand for the Gov to control lives of people that get Gov funding. Aka check them for drugs and cost the Gov even more than not doing it. Defining reach of the Gov is a never ending battle.
 
This seems an appropriate response to Red's post:
The Four Stages of Introducing New Technologies
My one-man campaign against fear started on a chilly evening in San Francisco. I was discussing the future and technology as part of a book tour, and I only had time to answer one more question. From the stage, I called on a guy in his 50s. When he started talking, it quickly became obvious that he was quite upset. He was living in fear that texting and the Internet were stealing his girls, about 12 and 14, from him and his wife.

"They spend all their time like this!" he said, pretending to hunch over a smartphone. "I'm worried they won't be able to communicate with normal people. How will they ever get a job?" Technology, he feared, was stealing his daughters—and I represented those insidious smartphones. He was so upset that he was yelling by the end of his question, and security began closing in on the man.

I understood why he was fearful, I told him: because he loves his daughters and wants them to have a good future. The fact is his daughters' smartphones just haven’t been around as long as TV; we haven’t yet established norms, or language, for what's socially acceptable and what's off limits. Gadgets and technology may change quickly, but people and our behavior does not. In 20 years, his fear about smartphones taking his daughters will seem quaint. We are currently in the middle of coming to grips with what these devices mean to us. This isn’t a technology problem; it’s a broader cultural conversation about what kind of future we want to live in. We need to have more conversations in our families, in our offices, and in the media about what we want and what’s acceptable
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Mildly amusing advertisment -- How to work your job with nothing but a Windows Phone

@Glaucus, THIS is the answer to how will they get a job if they only know a smartphone. Gadgets like these are quickly changing people, behavior, and society. The negative is 'off the clock' is quickly becoming passe. There are, of course, pros and cons to that idea.
 
[quote="faethor]@Glaucus, THIS is the answer to how will they get a job if they only know a smartphone. Gadgets like these are quickly changing people, behavior, and society. The negative is 'off the clock' is quickly becoming passe. There are, of course, pros and cons to that idea.[/quote]

Off the clock? What's that? But seriously, I both love and loathe my Blackberry. This is quickly becoming more loathe than love. My company recently moved my position back to hourly, due to federal law. One drawback is with my position, the blackberry pretty much never stops going off. I cannot turn off the phone in my job, no way. I guess this is too OT and may be another post for another day.
 
faethor said:
Mildly amusing advertisment -- How to work your job with nothing but a Windows Phone
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Was that an apple he was tossing around in his hand as he was walking away? lol
 
Ya, a better example would have been: To watch the 2004 Eufa Cup championship game live in Winnipeg!
 
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