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Automatic identification has evolved to use techniques that can
identify an object or subject without direct human intervention.
Such devices include the bar code, magnetic-stripe, integrated
circuit, and biometric and radio-frequency identification.
Innovative Automatic Identification & Location-Based Services:
From Bar Codes to Chip Implants emphasizes the convergence and
trajectory of automatic identification and location-based services
toward chip implants and real-time positioning capabilities.
Recording the history of automatic identification, this book also
discusses the social, cultural, and ethical implications of the
technological possibilities with respect to national security
initiatives.
Practitioners and scholars explore ethical, social, and conceptual
issues arising in relation to such devices as fitness monitors,
neural implants, and a toe-controlled computer mouse. Body-centered
computing now goes beyond the "wearable" to encompass implants,
bionic technology, and ingestible sensors-technologies that point
to hybrid bodies and blurred boundaries between human, computer,
and artificial intelligence platforms. Such technologies promise to
reconfigure the relationship between bodies and their environment,
enabling new kinds of physiological interfacing, embodiment, and
productivity. Using the term embodied computing to describe these
devices, this book offers essays by practitioners and scholars from
a variety of disciplines that explore the accompanying ethical,
social, and conceptual issues. The contributors examine
technologies that range from fitness monitors to neural implants to
a toe-controlled mouse. They discuss topics that include the policy
implications of ingestibles; the invasive potential of body area
networks, which transmit data from bodily devices to the internet;
cyborg experiments, linking a human brain directly to a computer;
the evolution of the ankle monitor and other intrusive electronic
monitoring devices; fashiontech, which offers users an aura of
"cool" in exchange for their data; and the "final frontier" of
technosupremacism: technologies that seek to read our minds. Taken
together, the essays show the importance of considering embodied
technologies in their social and political contexts rather than in
isolated subjectivity or in purely quantitative terms. Contributors
Roba Abbas, Andrew Iliadis, Gary Genosko, Suneel Jethani, Deborah
Lupton, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael, Marcel O'Gorman, Maggie
Orth, Isabel Pedersen, Christine Perakslis, Kevin Warwick,
Elizabeth Wissinger
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