Out of Pod Experience

I'm still waiting for the whole bar code on the neck deal.

The UK already has something partially in place, and it works about as well as can be expected for a government IT project, poorly implemented, contracted out to 3rd parties and way way too expensive.

Universal Jobmatch (meant to be voluntary, in practice mandatory if you're unemployed, and they gave the contract to Monster.com, who tbh have f'ked it up more than the government ever could) and DVLA are already using a scheme called Government Gateway which issues you with a 12 digit ID number that's required to access more in-depth services such as driving licence renewals, applying for social security benefits etc.

True, and freedom might disconnect from the internet.

Now imagine that the government in future has tax issues with internet companies as to where they have to tax. How might they apply a login code to determine traffic, meter adverts supplied and write laws to the effect that to transmit said adverts within network.

Essentially, doing this would solve the tax issue with residency for Google, Amazon and the like by having a copy of it all through packet monitoring and mandated networking, its what I'd do.

Moving towards that at the moment, as it stands the EU is losing out on revenue and it wants its due, it's probably going to be a big component of TAFTA negotiations.

One step closer to the SiN from Shadowrun.

Bring on the dragons!

Well, it must be stopped, immediately. It's the thin end of the wedge. First you need an ID to read online material. Next you'll need one to open a bank account, and so on until everything you do online you'll need this key for. And of course somewhere there will be a big database containing all of this information, and the net as "the wild west" will be dead.

How? The electorate want this for security.

Shadowrun has lots of those too.

And hot elf chicks.

Bulshytt:

(1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation.

(2) In Orth, a more technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.

(3) According to the Knights of Saunt Halikaarn, a radical order of the 2nd Millennium A.R., all speech and writings of the ancient Sphenics; the Mystagogues of the Old Mathic Age; Praxic Age commercial and political institutions; and, since the Reconstitution, anyone they deemed to have been infected by Procian thinking. Their frequent and loud use of this word to interrupt lectures, dialogs, private conversations, etc., exacerbated the divide between Procian and Halikaarnian orders that characterized the mathic world in the years leading up to the Third Sack. Shortly before the Third Sack, all of the Knights of Saunt Halikaarn were Thrown Back, so little more is known about them (their frequent appearance in Sæcular entertainments results from confusion between them and the Incanters).

Usage note: In the mathic world, if the word is suddenly shouted out in a chalk hall or refectory it brings to mind the events associated with sense (3) and is therefore to be avoided. Spoken in a moderate tone of voice, it takes on sense (2), which long ago lost any vulgar connotations it may once have had. In the Sæculum it is easily confused with sense (1) and deemed a vulgarity or even an obscenity. It is inherent in the mentality of extramuros bulshytt-talkers that they are more prone than anyone else to taking offense (or pretending to) when their bulshytt is pointed out to them. This places the mathic observer in a nearly impossible position. One is forced either to use this “offensive” word and be deemed a disagreeable person and as such excluded from polite discourse, or to say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself and thereby lending strength to what one is trying to attack. The latter quality probably explains the uncanny stability and resiliency of bulshytt. Resolving this dilemma is beyond the scope of this Dictionary and is probably best left to hierarchs who make it their business to interact with the Sæculum.

— the dictionary, 4th edition, A.R. 3000 (Neal Stephenson -- Anathem)