This video was sent to me by a high school friend…

Under the link, he wrote: “Very cool! And the inventor is a kid.”

It’s a new technology that will make finding your gate at the airport, and getting to it, much easier. In the video, you can see how much people like it.

My friends that were copied on the email agreed that it is marvelous. “Amazing!” one wrote. “What will they think of next?” wrote another.

I’ll tell you what I think… I think it’s scary. Inevitable, but scary. And I’ll tell you why.

In the context of negotiating your way through a busy airport, it is a very attractive benefit. No more scouring the departure boards. No more worry about finding your gate or getting to it on time. The system will guide you every step of the way, letting you know about any changes and when, exactly, you will arrive at the gate.

That’s great. But how does it work?

When you confirm your registration, the device scans your body image and converts it into digital information. It will then be able to track you and communicate with you during the entire time you are in the airport.

After your plane takes off, your data is deleted from the database. That’s what the people behind the technology say. And in the beginning, that’s what they will do. But I am absolutely certain that before long the government will step in and claim this digital information for its homeland security database. It will be necessary, they will say, to track down terrorists and keep everyone safe.

And no one will object to it. Because no one, except terrorists, will have anything to hide. So, the digital body images will be collected and stored in a federal digital bank. And the collection of data will grow from there. Devices like this one will be installed at every train and bus station and inside and outside of all public buildings. To transport yourself by train, plane, or rented automobile, you’ll have to submit to a scan. And despite assurances that it won’t be done, this data will eventually be used to track every movement of virtually every person, citizen or alien, 24/7.

Add this to the coming of the digital dollar, and you have the makings of a zero-privacy society. It will be a society where we will all have social credit scores that will determine what privileges and freedoms we are allowed. And it will be a society where everyone is okay with that because everyone will have “nothing to hide.”