Osaka Gas to put a bug up your butt
Japan has been mulling over implanting all their school kids with chips for some time now using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Now they are going one better to sensor tagging sleepy salarymen to squeeze more work out of them beyond their 14-hour work days with “service” [unpaid] overtime.
Hitachi, Osaka Gas Use Wearable Sensors to Raise White-collar Productivity
June 9, 2008 18:55 — NIKKEI Tech-On!
…The analysis and assessment technology combines Hitachi’s “Business Microscope,” a system that visualizes activities in an organization using Hitachi’s proprietary sensor technology incorporating infrared and acceleration sensors, and Osaka Gas’ action monitoring technology… action data is analyzed using knowledge such as human engineering, environmental psychology and gesture and expression analysis….
… the test, in which 30 workers engaged in the information and communication department wore the sensors…. revealed realities concerning how long the employees concentrated on doing the same task and factors that interrupted their concentration...more…
Time to put on my tin-foil hat and mylar underwear too. I can imagine that conspiracy theorists are saying, “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear The Mark Of The Beast” and that major corporations and governments plan to track our every move with these sensors and action monitoring technology, hee, hee.
REVELATIONS 13–16, 17 :
“The Beast also forced everyone,
small and great, rich and poor, free and slave,
to receive a mark on his right hand or
on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell
unless he had the Mark, which is
the name of the Beast or the number of His name.”
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