iPad ~ the new passport:

[Succat]

  
. . . Is this the future?


● [b:5bff9a6d4c]'iPad gets Canadian across US border'[/b:5bff9a6d4c] ~ [i:5bff9a6d4c]Associated Press[/i:5bff9a6d4c]

January 05, 2011 ― "A Canadian man who realised he had forgotten his passport as he approached the United States border found a new way to gain entry, his iPad."

◦ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/ar ... d=10776689
 
 

[kabuki_mono]

Hey [b:4745a70daf]Succat[/b:4745a70daf]

It results rather strange that he was able to cross a border with a scanned copy. In Europe; when there was borders, a photocopy was not permitted, the same as when a foreign police ask for your documents. They want the original ... if not you can be in serious trouble.

A thought about this 'possible future' though ... wouldn't this make falsifications much much easier?¿

[b:4745a70daf]Km[/b:4745a70daf]

[themodernnomad]

I hope we don't all have to buy an iPad :/

-MN

[ceo]

[quote:86b741d146="themodernnomad"]I hope we don't all have to buy an iPad :/

-MN[/quote:86b741d146]

No; we'll just be required to have a chip implanted on our bodies. That way the government and "big brother" will always know where we are.

[themodernnomad]

[quote="ceo]
No; we'll just be required to have a chip implanted on our bodies. That way the government and "big brother" will always know where we are.[/quote]

Phew. For a second there I thought we were all screwed

-MN

[kabuki_mono]

[quote:277db095d9="ceo"] No; we'll just be required to have a chip implanted on our bodies. That way the government and "big brother" will always know where we are.[/quote:277db095d9]

It's already being done .. has been for years. In real 'chique' night clubs in Barcelona you can get a chip implanted so you don't have to pay cash ... :/

[b:277db095d9]Km[/b:277db095d9]