Will:

Yes, I am a Trekker --- my preference is toward THE NEXT GENERATION and DEEP SPACE NINE. I own both on DVD. I suppose that it should surprise no one here that I am also a very big X-FILES fan.

The whole idea with these microchip implants are that they are going to make them seem NORMAL in anyway they can. We are seeing the beginning of this with the RFID chips.

I am greatly concerned about the VERI CHIP becoming a STATUS SYMBOL --- as in your analysis.

I have spent time on the U.S. patent website, and there are some heinous inventions. One of them is a bioidentifier that utilizes laser and barcoding on the human body.

As far as the people not understanding INCREMENTALISM --- it is just going to have to take the good people who do understand it making attempts to explain it to them. That is one of my functions.

The way to keep an eye on this is by keeping track of how they implement this --- and you are going to find that it is going to go down as I say.

A few months ago, I took a break from the DBIS message board. I went through the entire archives. By my count there are eighty regulars who visit this site on at least weekly basis. Dan recently told me that out of these eighty people, I ranked 16th or 18th, I cannot remember which. That is firmly in the top 25% --- so people ARE listening.

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