This is just the good old down-home locally-grown craft kind of crazy.
Shouldnât they be sent to a different star system? Mars is only a few light minutes from my childâs school.
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Miniature implantable GPS trackers totally exist and are currently being used by the US military to track special forces on critical missions. This is common knowledge. This technology goes hand in hand with the tiny explosive charges our elite soldiers have implanted at the base of their skulls that can be remote detonated, preventing the loss of potentially critical military secrets. Again, this is common knowledge. The fact that Cory jumps on the story and posts, âThis technology doesnât exist. What an idiot,â to the one of the worldâs most popular blogs is a sure sign that the technology DOES exist. Denial always equals confirmation in these cases.
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Surely this Total Recall scene is more relevant to the story?
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This can and will happenâŚ
The market for medical devices not very different from this is in the same order as the whole car industry
Smart insulin pumps and the whole pile of drugs and interventions that an aging population will love, or die.
They will want connectivity and whereas some dimwit local government canât afford it, Google or whatever will chuck a billion dollars at it.
The kneejerk reaction that because you donât like something means it is not technically positive, removes the chance to see it if can be done.
Firstly the aerial. Thatâs neither pretty nor hard.
âŚfor a given value of âprettyâ. Many people already have substantial body piercings, this could have the extra benefit of making carriers highly visible if a distinctive pattern of aerial piercings were used, but of course within a year some people will have fakes because they like the look.
GSM modules are cheap and small, I have one in my watch, making it surgically clean and making the surface materials not react badly inside the body is not very cheap, but something the medical industry does all the time. GPS modules ditto.
Power is not a problem at all, phones support contactless charging, off the shelf tech.
In quantity as a commercial product, weâre talking a few $k, (as a government project, 20K).
The operation to install follows the same pattern, a surgical procedure should cost a few K, but done by the government will be 20ish.
It needs monitoring and maintaining, commercially that would be 10K ish, but the killer for this idea is that government will push it to 30-40k, since weâre assuming it will be for life, weâre looking at a round million bucks.
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The main options are parylene coating, implant-grade silicone (often used for cosmetic implants by body modification people, those weird under-skin âbumpsâ), or biocompatible glass (the favorite option for RFID/NFC tags).
Not a major problem, the tech is out there.
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I am guessing Williams Lake has a problem with that other implantable behavior-modification technology called âalcohol.â
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there is only one know way to block these trackersâŚtinfoil hats.
âWelcome to Williams Lake. Gateway to Scarfolk!â
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If youâre going to depend on imaginary technology to deal with crime, why not just go all in and pledge to equip the city hall with some kind of âanti-crime ray?â
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From a purely technical standpoint the power supply wouldnât be too difficult, because you only need it to last between charges, and can accomplish charging through a wireless charging spec. Of course, cooling would be a big issue, what with a 37/99 degree human body wrapped in a big insulator not being a very friendly cooling environment compared to the open air and the tighter thermal requirements for comfort sake. Not to mention the regulatory nightmare involved in getting such a device with no appreciable medical benefit approvedâŚ
Well at least itâs in Canada. If you end up needing to send them to the U.S. due to legal or monopoly or other reasons, then on top of travel, youâll need to add some more 0âs to the medic cost. Thatâs if itâs an easy outpatient procedure. If itâs an inpatient procedure or requires anesthetic, add some more 0âs. If thereâs a chance the insurance company might think that anyone in the hospital could possibly be âout of networkâ, add a few more 0âs.
Youâre talking about people who want GPS implants. A criminal who gets one unwillingly will find it trivial to defeat.
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Uh, this is BC and the interior of BC at that. The Interior of BC is full on crazy all the time. Those towns are very isolated (even worse in the winter), education is often poor, often depend on one source of employment that is usually seasonal so thereâs lots of down time, drugs are widely available, they are inhabited by a mixed bag of conspiracists, religious nuts and the out right crazy. Blame the US or Canada if you like but this is really more its own thing.
An old iPhone5 (or a dedicated device) with that fingerprint ID thing is a GPS tracker that you could be required to check in with at regular intervals. They would know where you are, and that it is you, which would come in handy for verifying community service (heck, with the accelerometer theyâd know how many calories you burned picking up roadside garbage) and if thatâs too much of a problem go sit a community justice center instead.
No real need to implant it. The next generation is already tethered.
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that sounds like Mostanytown, USA.
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Is the ONLY access to most towns in the US closed for weeks at a time in the winter due to snow and in the summer due to rock falls & forest fires? Where you literally canât get to them for 6 weeks or more? Are the populations of the towns made up partially by people who look like they stepped out of Mad Max and believe they are living in a Mad Max world, Hutterites who like to bomb/set fire to public buildings in the nude and paranoid draft dodgers? Thatâs Interior of BC.Trust me it is a different world.
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The only access to most US people is their phone. People can get TO you, but if they canât get through to you, well, you might as well be in BC behind a safe wall of avalanches and forest fires. Those are more predictable than human temperament anyhow.
Same people though. Same humanity, different clothes.
Also, I lived in Willits CA for a spell. Iâve seen the rodeo.
Does Willits have an embassy and greeting centre for aliens? Youâll find that in the interior of BC. Endorsed by the local council as well.
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