"Hi, I'm a Mac." "And I'm Big Brother"
Microsoft is creating software that can remotely monitor "a worker's productivity, physical well-being and competence." A worker will be wirelessly "linked" to their computer which will measure "heart rates, movements, facial expressions and blood pressure." Microsoft's patent application refers to it as a "unique monitoring system."Specifically, "wireless sensors could read 'heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain signals, respiration rate, body temperature, facial movements, facial expressions and blood pressure." Even frustration can be detected. Microsoft claims this will better enable the corporation to provide proper assistance. Does somebody smell a euphemism here?
While Macintosh is releasing innovative products for the ease of life, Microsoft is serving the New World Order agenda--all of this predicted by Jacques Ellul in The Technological Society:
"The prime purpose of state or corporation might even be to rob and despoil the individual by the exploitation of these techniques. I repeat that it could not have been otherwise. From a certain degree of development onward, every technique concerns the collectivity of men." p. 235
"In a great corporation, the workers are more than ever enslaved and scarcely in a position to act in a distinctively human way." p. 154
