It is about time for a universal global id card, to track individuals, healthcare, activities and locations from birth to death.

The benefits outwieght the disadvantages.

Protections will need to be made, not all information should be available unless there is a compelling reason.

I think a universal global id card with some form of location tracking would be of immense benefit to individuals and society. I am not avocating a chip implant or other intrusive technology.

Furthermore, protections need to be put into place that prevent discrimination because of information found on the card or in the card database.

I think that individuals will adopt this technology first, and then build a case to get governments to adopt a universal standard. G5 nations then could fund universal id cards in other nations and restrict access, dollars to any nation that does not comply with a universal id schema.

For an universal id scheme to work and be effective, it must be tied to increased benefit and well being for the id holder.

Also, given the life experience of a person, if recorded on an id card, important information such as if the person was a drug user, or convicted of a dui or crime, should be on the card, but rules to access and limiting access to information need to be contstructed for use.

If you just gave cards to convicts, you create more problems than you would solve. A universal card would and could protect society by limiting access to child offenders to day care locations, for example, or preventing a dui. Benefits would not just be to prevent crime, but to eliminate problems before they become problems.

Again the legal framework would have to be worked out. Limiting access to people, or making people use a card to get into buildings, public buildings would be a major social change.

It would require all buildings to have card access and report entry and exits to a regional server. 

Long term, I think even homes would want the card. Ups or Fed ex could place packages inside your home. A deadbolt lock not on the system could be locked to keep even the system from allowing people to gain entry.  

Most people would object to a system, but if you mandated all children under 18 get cards, over time unless death is eliminated for adults, all new adults entering adulthood would have the card.

For this to work, and be accepted I think you would have to have free (preventitive) healthcare and  increased benefits.

What do you think?

I don't see this ever working.  It brings the possibility of future Orwellian policies to mind.

In theory the international passport system is already evolving in the directions you're advocating. It's an open question whether this will be mostly good or bad.

Mr. Farlops:

In theory the international passport system is already evolving in the directions you're advocating. It's an open question whether this will be mostly good or bad.

 

If we have radical life extension, I think it will be a matter of time before unintrusive passive id systems are commonplace and internetworked.

We all know of wonderful ideas gone wickedly bad.

Even when personal systems can record every second of your human exsistence and play and moment of biological time back to you at any current moment you are alive is scary to think that the technology will soon exist to record whole lifespans, every human event, perhaps with biometrics.

 

Like you said, some good, some bad. The way it is.