Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:15 pm by THX1138
http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/news/177103027
Iris scanners, straight out of the Minority Report.
"When a parent arrives to pick up her child at one of three grade schools in the Freehold Borough School District, she'll need to look into a camera that will take a digital image of her iris. That photo will establish positive identification to gain entrance into the school."
Now for the question I always throw in at the end of each news post: How long before the impliment it around the city for "anti-terrorist threats" and how how long before Google decides to pay for these for the city for them to be able to put ads tailored to us (as they did with Gmail and their adsense program)?
You know what? I'm beginning to see that in about 100 years from now, most, if not all, of Philip K Dick's fears and predictions for the future will come true. And in that 100 years, people will look back and think of him as some kind of prophet like Nostradamus. Most of what Nostradamus predicted was pretty vague, but then again, look at what fits in. PKD is being pretty vague in his messages, but look what's fitting in.
"Don't be a dick!" -Wil Wheaton