Cyberhomme, cyberhumanité

When a calf is born in France, a computerized label is clipped to its ear which makes it possible to follow the animal from the field to the consumer’s dinner plate…
Isn’t it now likely that human beings will be condemned to the same fate? This is the risk, the fear, that Bernard Vaudour-Faguet raises here: that from birth, human beings too will have computer chips implanted that will record all the information judged to be useful, from their social security number to the contents of their bank accounts, by way of their curriculum vit, their vaccinations, their keys or access codes for their homes, etc.
Then, with the aid of decoders, every individual with the silicon implant will be as easily traced as a packet of soap powder at a supermarket check-out, turned into an object, with a kind of postcode that can be followed everywhere and kept under constant check. A dream of modern science! A human nightmare!