Final Video

the above video is my final piece. although the quality of the footage is not the best due to lack of expert equipment i feel that it has put across my point and my idea. i found this hard to create something that didn't look to tacky on a low budget but i feel that with a bit of editing it has created a very believable scenario.

final idea

my final idea is to create a short story about how the world has changed so that your life revolves around the use of the chip implant. This implant monitors every aspect of your life from you bank account details to your movement through the world. the chip contains all your personal information and is the only form of identification that is acceptable.

my character "james" is about to experience just a minor side of what could happen if the chip stop ed working and the inconvenience this could cause to every day life.

One World

In the above video it shows a theory of how the world might unite as one and use the id chips to help control society. This is the type of feel i am trying to aim for in my short video clip. the aspect of control that the government would have if this idea was implemented or if the chip somehow stop working.

As seen in the above videos there are many benifits to having a biometric inplant and they are already being put into practice. they are even now being used in disneyland in america. To stop ticket fraud apparently "It's not a straight fingerprint per se and according to Disney, the information is not used in order to violate theme park goers privacy but as an effort to continue to secure the parks which receive tens of millions of visitors for years. It's also important to remember that Walt Disney World is the largest commercial application of biometric technology for security. Similar biometric policies were implemented after September 11, 2001 by the initiatives to help a plan for Passenger Protection and Identity Verification in airports."

Social uses

As seen in the video above taken from the film Minority Report. This uses a similar way of scanning a person and then setting up adverts specifically for them using their name. This is a way that advertisers could use biometric implants. For example you could keep information about your likes and dislikes even what you brought last time you visited the store and this could then be used to show you products that you may be interested in purchasing. (taken from http://disney.families.com/blog/disney-world-implementing-new-fingerprint-scanner-security)

This type of scanning and evaluating of your likes and dislikes could not only be used by companies and advertisers but used by everyone. for example if you were sat in a bar and you had a device that let you scan through the people there you could decide who to talk to and who not to talk to.

Professor Kevin Warwick

Professor Kevin Warwick based at the University of Reading has already experimented with biometric implants in his own body in August 1998. In a very simple experiment Warwick had a small transponder placed under the skin of his arm which communicated with the computer system at the university. The devise had the capabilities of tracking the exact location of the Professor, opening the doors of the building as he approached them, turning on his desktop computer and even playing a welcome message as he entered his office.



These are the type of everyday things that implants could be used for. The Professor goes on to say "I didn't feel like Big Brother was watching, probably because I benefited from the implant: The doors opened and lights came on, rather than doors closing and lights turning off," he says. "It does make me feel that Orwell was probably right about the Big Brother issue--we'll just go headlong into it; it won't be something we'll see as a being negative because there will be lots of positives in it for us."

These sort of issues are what a large number of people would be concerned about if the goverments started to introduce thses types of implants. althought the professor does raise an interesting point in saying that if it was marketed as a sort of convenience devise much like the ideas behind a car. removing the need to walk or run long distances and making our ability to travel alot further than before. the professor goes on to say about his relationship between him self and his implant "After a few days I started to feel quite a closeness to the computer, which was very strange, When you are linking your brain up like that, you change who you are. You do become a 'borg.' You are not just a human linked with technology; you are something different and your values and judgment will change."

This statement from the professor is very interesting and relevant to the way that implants can be used in a social way. the professor says that the implant started to change the way hes he thought and acted, if there was a way of view peoples public profiles which were stored on these implants would it change the way we interact with each other as humans. for example if you were sat in a bar and could find out the exact interest of everyone in that bar by reading it from their implants if no one there had the same interests as you would you still stay and talk to these people.

http://www.countdown.org/end/mark_of_the_beast_06.htm

My Brief

For my idea I have decided to look at the possibility of cybernetic implants into the human body. By this I mean a small chip inserted into the body at birth which are compulsory that houses all of the information collected on that person. So a sort of embodiment of all the digital and personal details into a single devise stored within the subjects body.

There are a number of pros and cons to this idea and it has all ready been talked about and experimented with in the past. The main reasons for this from the governments point of view it would be to easy to identify and categorize people by their personal information. Also it has the potential to be able to track and monitor the exact location and activities of every individual.

But this is one aspect of the use of this type of technology. It could also be used as a way to distinguish social networks i.e the likes and dislikes that an individual may have and how they may or may not be compatible with you. For example if there was a accessible data base of information which could be accessed by any one person (similar to facebook or myspace) there would be no need to physically interact with this person to find out their likes and dislikes. So with that in mind the way we interact socially when we go out may change as we essentially browse a catalog of people search for people with similar interest.