Prophecy:Stalking

The following is a story based on technology that currently exists. The general series of events in this story will happen too many times to count in the future.

The Begining
Karl is a 16 year old boy. He is very good with computers and electronics. He doesn't often get a girlfriend, and he feels a need or desire to get one. Thus, when at schools, he looks for potentional girlfriends. Many are obviously not what he wants, and some seem a little too hard for him to get. He settles for less than what he is probably capable of. A girl named Jordan. Jordan is attractive, but many girls are more attractive. He makes his move on her, and she lets him into her life. His mind has focused on the imaginary "need" of a girlfriend, and now he has to move on to his next instinct: sex. He does not ask her or try to have sex, but will sometimes ask curved questions. He does not actually expect to have sex, but he does acquire a lot of lust. Whether or not she is an object or a person to him is unclear or mixed.

The Light Side
Jordan realizes that he grows an obsession with her, and/or begins to feel uncomfortable with his lustful behavior, or the obvious attempt to hide it. She dumps him, and he is sad. She would say he was a freak, but in reality he just didn't know what he was doing.

Karl's friend Alex has a dad. Alex's dad has access to RFID scanners. In the day and age that they live in, which isn't too far in the future, RFID scanners detech RFID chips, which are chips placed on your body and in every product you own. The chip in your body will be required in order to buy and sell. These chips are useful to the world. You can walk into the mall. A general clothing store will scan your chip (and there will be no way you would know it's going on). They will take your ID number out of it, then look you up online. They will find every clothing product you have ever bought and load them into a program. If 80% of the clothes you buy are red, for example, they will find your most recent average clothes size and be able to help you try on red clothes before you even enter the store. If you often buy clothes at the store you are at, they might give you a discount for being a useful customer. Each of the clothes you are wearing will have a scanner on them. One with an RFID scanner can tell you the specific brand, type, color, size, and even the barcode of underwear you are currently wearing without even looking at you. They can help you get what you usually would get, and it would be helpful to the end of time.

The Dark Side
Alex's dad allows Alex to play with his laptop, which includes a built-in scanner and software. This laptop is used for work, but his dad has a spare. Using Myspace, Karl sees that Jordan is going to the mall. He contacts his friend Alex, and they plan to goto the mall. Using the mall's built in scanners and it's data network, the laptop detechs the exact location of Jordan and her freinds. This information is displayed on a digital map in real-time. She is on the balcony, and they are on the ground level. She is approaching their direction.

At this point, the story could end several ways.

Ending A
Karl uses the scanner to see into her purse. The scanner lists that she has a digital camera, one worth around $450. As he looks up at the balcony, he sees a man running fast. He rams into her, knocking her over. As she is on the ground, he has her purse. He opens it, takes the camera, then makes a run for it. He escapes the view of Karl, and may or may not have gotten away. Jordan suffered a broken arm due to this event. When she arrives at the hospitol, the chip in her body tells the doctors several important things about her body like blood-type.

Ending B
Karl uses the scanner to see her clothes. The laptop shows a 3D view of the objects she has on her. He sees that she is wearing a short white skirt and a pink thong. Her friend is wearing a shorter green skirt and blue panties. Many lustful thoughts travel through there mind. Alex and Karl look up to the balcony, hoping to see the "goodies." They are pleased with the accuracy and results. Alex returns to the laptop, and does a general search. He digitally tracks everyone on the balcony level of the mall who is wearing a skirt that is knee-length or shorter and is wearing a thong. After that, he filters through those results to everyone who is between 12 and 25 years of age. With this information, they make hot persuit to their unknowning victums.

Morality
You probably read that and saw the benefits and flaws to this new technology. You must ask yourself: Is this right? Surely, if you are a girl, you would think that this is gross, or something only an animal would do. I assure you, when this technology is established, there will be many animals.

This technology is an invasion of privacy. It's not that they can--it's that they will invade our privacy. It has already begun with the Real ID (gCache). This will lead to scannable microchips. The new society caused by these changes will be without physical money and without privacy.

Spread the bad news.

Sources and Additional Reading

 * news.com.com
 * epic.org
 * Real ID Rebellion
 * digg.com

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