Re: (CuD) (CuNews) Smart Kard Forum

[Steven Hodas <hhll@u.washington.edu>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 1993, Eric Hughes wrote:

> Strick:
> >Does anyone know if these Smart Kards could be available via anonymous
> >cash transactions, like european telephone cards? 
> 
> Well, let's look at the applications.
> 
> >The cross-industry group will promote the use of smart-card technology
> >for 
> 
> Not necessarily     identifying
>   identifying       ===========
> ===============     health care
> payment             identification
> transit             security
> 
> My guess is that anonymity isn't even in their heads.
> 
> Eric

"Overpopulation has led to ever-increasing governmental control over the
private citizen, not on the old-style police-state models of oppression
and terror, but in terms of work, credit, housing, retirement benefits,
and medical care: things which can be withheld. These services are
computerized. No number, no service. However, this has not produced the
brainwashed standardized human units postulated by such linear prophets as
George Orwell. Instead, a large percentage of the population has been
forced underground. How large, no one knows. These people are NUMBERLESS."

From _Blade Runner (a movie)_, William S. Burroughs, 1979, Blue Wind Press


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