There's not much any poem can do, Stephen. I think any one with any
sense of allegory etc would have thought the same as you about Cheney's
'accident', so like the continuing one he runs at the White House....
Of course, as a reader of SF, I've known about these for a long time
now -- as speculation. And of course, the benign version, of a chosen
implanted version of a Blackberry is the one 'we' want.
Doug
On 12-Feb-06, at 9:06 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Are you ready, are your children ready or, Jeesus - it's here!
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> US group implants electronic tags in workers
> By Richard Waters in San Francisco
> Published: February 12 2006 22:02 | Last updated: February 12 2006
> 22:02
> An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees -
> the
> first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically
> as a
> way of identifying them.
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> CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was
> testing
> the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds
> security video footage for government agencies and the police.
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> Amazing, and the company calls itself, "City Watcher" - a superficially
> benign self-definition, if there ever was one. I am actually thinking
> of
> those people who wake up - after an evening drink of a special sort in
> a
> distant City - and find themselves missing a kidney. Chip implants or
> their
> removal will be the next phase of that kind of surgical practice. Or
> spare
> the surgery, and may the hackers on the left unite and bring down those
> chips. Certainly, parents are going to be demanding devices to insure
> their
> children are not carrying government implants - or, conversely, there
> will
> be those parents looking to give their children implants, along with
> the V
> chips in their home computer systems. But workers at any job
> potentially
> required to submit to this?
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> Ain't we humans all so lovely. Or as Rumsfeld says, "Goodness
> gracious."
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> Or, imagining Cheney, after firing his gun into a fellow hunter's
> face, "I
> want to assure my fellow Americans this incident is not a metaphor for
> the
> way I normally operate."
>
> What's a lyric poem - or any poem - supposed to do with all this??
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> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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