Micro-chipping in Nightclubs
After talking in class about RFID chips already been used in nightclubs I did a bit of extra research on this as found it really interesting. Although some people are doing it, there are still VIPs that are very much against it. In an inteview which can been found on youtube () Heidi Montag, star off The Hills says "Over my dead body would I get one" and carries on to say that we, as humans, aren't dogs and should't be getting micro-chips implanted into our bodies. I personally think that the idea around RFID is pretty amazing and with the possiblities that are possible through chipping people is pretty exciting and will be widely popular. However it does seem very extreme for nightclubs... Do people really need a chip implanted just to enter a night club? Couldnt they just have an ID card like usual, or just be regonised by their face if they are that VIP or even a thumb print regonition. Even through i'm all for chipping humans I do think that doing it for the sole purpose of getting into a VIP nightlcub is a little ridiculous. Through researching the idea of chipping people I found out quite a bit about previous idea's that people had before they decided that the RFID chips were the way to go. They decided that the photo identification cards that we use right now just weren't enough for identifying people as they are so easy to fake and sometimes get away with usuing other peoples that look similar. One idea that was widely discussed before chiiping came into the equation was that of a tattoo. That everyone had a unique tattoo on them that identified who they were and had all their information connected to. Like say for example a barcode, if we all had barcodes tattooed on us we could use them to access our electronic information. Obviously with the amount of technology out there these days and they amount thats still being discovered they wanted something a bit more high-tech and I'm guessing this is where the chips came in.