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Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.

- Mostly Harmless


It sounds like a good idea, and in a society with no profit motive - and, moreover, with no crackers - it might be doable. But in our society, i.e. what we laughingly call 'real life'...no. The words 'identity theft' spring readily to mind. In this immature society, we are not ready.