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I just finished watching "I, Robot" for the third time. No, not in a row. First time was in the theater when it was released, second time was on DVD at a friends house a couple of years back. I've been thinking about how tech in movies is catching up with physical reality.
The prop above is from that movie. A detective's ID. The way it works is you simply show it to whatever scanner you're in front of. The robots know who he is from that ID. So today, you now have RFID and Bluetooth. Most of the current ID tech relies on the same concept. All we need is auto-pilot cars with spherical wheels. The robots are here. Just not in people's homes. Yet.
Anyway, RFID and Bluetooth are those types of tech that are scary good. The good news is anyone can find you. The bad news is anyone can find you.
Please, people, be VERY sure of what info you have on the internet. How public do you really want to be? If you value any kind of privacy, keep your cards at home, and your phone with Bluetooth disabled.
Of course, going with the trends, RFID is eventually going to be embedded in driver's licences and state ID cards. Consider keeping those in the glove compartment. Because your car is going to want to know who you are for auto locking mechanisms, you might want to consider installing old-style key locks. And nothing with a card. A good old fashioned metal key.
And this advice is coming from someone who advocates RFID/Bluetooth/WiFi soda machines. I feel like such a whore.....
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Thats because you are a whore... j/k but I really have to disagree with one thing and thats the idea that physical reality is catching up with movies. I think that technology like RFID etc have been around for a long time. Just because we (the normal people) didn't know about it doesn't mean that it didn't exist. Look back at history and you'll often see that in hindsight a lot of advanced technologies already existed long before we ever knew about it. When we thought it was just "in the movies". I have often held the belief that movies often are accurate in what they portray. In other words the technology they portray either already exists or is likely to exist a lot sooner that we would imagine. That doesn't go for everything of course but I think as a general rule it is. Wal-Mart has been working on R&D for RFID for years for possible use in their stores as even one example.
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