This way it could make it easier for a pay per what you use society that is getting closer. An example to what I foresee is that people pay for each and every lesson. There maybe machine points or terminals in the buildings where students put in their door cards and pay for the lessons using money or bank cards, in order to allow them access to the designated classrooms. Can’t believe this happening? I did not think so for some changes.
For cards such as ID cards, they can then use this as an advantage to integrate to the student cards and track everybody accurately from remote places. This could then be used not only in public free services but for enforcing age restrictions and tracking out of school students. This is seeing a person as a card not a person. There are so much of opportunities for this kind of control which could be why they are taking a long time trying to plain it out. I will know when it happens to me.
This could invade privacy all way round to track the whereabouts of everybody using the ID cards in this way. Soon to register everyday in learning institutes might not require a person and a register but the student to put the card in a certain amount of times a day according to the lessons chosen. Soon those prepaid machines could start to replace jobs at desks and automation can take place whilst administration grows.
In future guess there may not even be a person teaching in the classrooms but a projector or a massive screen playing automated videos and possibly live broadcasting to multiple classrooms or buildings. A screen to each desk could be the next thing to that which is pretty much now but without the instructor.
Tell me what you think?
Can you see this ever happening?
I would like to hear your views.
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 08 June 2006 - 08:06 PM