WITH technology exploding like nobody’s business today and governments becoming more and more predisposed to monitoring their own people for “national security” purposes, and for whatever other reasons, sometimes you wonder how things would be like, say, 10to 15 years from now. 

Jasonpickles provides us a ‘typical’ fast-forward scenario of how a simple activity like ordering a pizza from your favorite store would run, circa 2020. 

But other than that, one can just understand how a national ID system as being espoused by our leaders is met with some grave reservations (mainly arising, we believe, from having watched or read about the Big-Brother-is-watching syndrome) by some sectors.

As every human being cannot avoid becoming a buyer one time or the other or needing  customer service sometime, once tagged through a national ID, he remains tagged till death. Of course one can always go the mountains and live the life of Ka Roger, incommunicado for the most part outside of the trusty cellphone, but that’s a rather abnormal life. I seriously doubt many people would want that.

And so, to live or not to live with a national ID, that is the question?

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