I was still thinking about the device in the head as
I fell asleep this night. The entity came as usual and took me back to Washington DC. I was looking in on a meeting over the internet. The popularity of the brain implants, the applications were being reviewed, and further applications were discussed. The financial ministers said that the identification system was good enough to prevent identity theft, and it was far better and much more resistant to spoofing than any other method of identification. But the system had to be deployed worldwide and replace all other methods. The propaganda ministers agreed and said that once in the head, the device would prevent dissent and give the people a love for the leader that was more like worship. They would work with the entertainment industry to insure that only positive political inputs would ever get on the network. The legal departments saw the advantages of the GPS tracker, and the mind reading portion so that crimes could prevented while the bad guys were still planning them. As in "Minority Report". The religious ministers loved the idea of beaming their messages, with all the feelings they wanted, directly into the minds of their flock.
The problem was that some Christians feared the
device, based on a Biblical prophecy, calling it the “mark of the beast”. Others did not want anything in their heads, no matter what great things that it could do. People still liked paper, coins, I:/tripod web backup/dreameight.htm 1/4 5/20/2010 dreameight.htm
computers, cell phones, and televisions. Getting
them to change would be a struggle. The benefits of the device were so great, that mandatory implantation was suggested.
The educational campaign was similar to the
change to digital television. Subsidies were given, deadlines were established. Free implantation began. People lined up as if it was the hottest toy or cell phone, and it was being given away free, and also the network costs were being waived.
The other forms of identification were labeled
worthless. All cards, forms, monies, code numbers, scanning devices, and personal databases were vulnerable to identity theft, spoofing, and fraud, so they were considered counterfeit / obsolete after a set date, like analog TV.
These plans got about 75% acceptances with little
opposition. Now what do you do to get 100% compliance? First the laws were changed to prevent commerce with the old methods. No one could buy or sell, be employed, access money, get pensions, or pay bills without using the verifiable URL address. All electronic commerce had to have this URL address. An address was three sets of six hexadecimal numbers. It was nicknamed the “666”. That was an ominous number from the past.
Then there was “the mark”. An embedded chip in
your head could be read by scanners, but not everyone had a scanner. And the chip was invisible in the head. The URL could be tattooed on a person and then typed into any mobile terminal for I:/tripod web backup/dreameight.htm 2/4 5/20/2010 dreameight.htm
verification and identification. Each person with a
chip was also to have a tattoo on their hand or forehead. Anyone with a cell phone camera could send in an image of the mark and get an approval. The image was sent through the network and vital identification data was returned so you knew who you were dealing with. If there was a problem a brain implant scan would be done by someone with the more complex scanning equipment.
The holdouts fled, went underground, or tried to
use fake tattoos. They could have been rounded up and forced to be implanted. But if they were forcibly implanted they would disrupt the network and endeavor to subvert the flow of ideas. Dissenters forced to be implanted was not what the leader wanted, so a choice was to be made. Freely accept this implant or starve, be socially isolated, or end up in a concentration camp to be “reeducated”. This was a little more subtle than grabbing someone, knocking them out and when they woke up they had a chip in their head.
A bounty was placed on those who were
unmarked. Bounty hunters or their friends and family would rat them out and collect electronic credits. The police would catch the unmarked and give them the choice. Get an implant or go to a concentration camp.
The unmarked included Christians, religious
fanatics, criminals, survivalists, malcontents, dissidents, the fearful, and intellectuals who preferred the old methods of communication. Many bribes were passed and less developed areas saw I:/tripod web backup/dreameight.htm 3/4 5/20/2010 dreameight.htm
an influx of these electronic refugees. An
underground railway was set up. But the bounty hunters hunted these people down like the Nazis hunted down Jews during WWII.
Soon the concentration camps were full. New ones
were built, and the entire world started to resemble Nazi Germany.
The “reeducation” was torture, similar to the
methods used on terrorists by the CIA during the years after 9/11/01. If that did not work harsher methods would follow.
I woke up with images of Auschwitz in my mind.
This whole dream thing was getting to be a torture. I wrote my remembrances down but could not get back to sleep.