Military science fable author Elizabeth Moonhas erect some eyebrowswith her argument that everybody should have a unique identifier such as a barcode or chip , which would be “ permanently impound ” and “ imprinted on everybody at nascency . ”
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Perhaps because of her military SF ground , all of her examples of the usefulness of this system have to do with wartime site . Like , you could have all weapons set to tape the unique identifier of whoever pulled the gun trigger , so that there would be full answerableness . Soldiers could tell legitimate combatants from non - combatants by their barcodes , and only sprout the former . ( One pictures a platoon going around scan everybody ’s carpus before inject at them , or not . ) There would be total answerableness all around , because “ namelessness would be impossible . ”
Update : Moon haswritten on her own blog that she was n’t being serious .
scan Moon ’s brief comment , you ’re will intuitive feeling as though she ’s envisioning a society where babies are labeled for warfare . And it ’s gentle to cogitate of all the way this organisation could be cut up — either to facilitate civilian fraud , or to evade answerableness in wartime . For one thing , we all knowhow gentle it is to clone a unparalleled identifier.[BBC ]
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