IT: Infrared Tracking

Are you ready for the future? If you think Georgethe age of West Nile virus and the impending H5N1 bird
Orwell's 1984 was a scary thought to contemplate didflu these technologies will be deployed soon.
you have seen nothing yet. In the future we will haveIt is therefore only a matter of time before we use
infrared tracking of every single human, animal in livinginfrared tracking to track all human movement all on it
creature on this planet. Today we track every singlearound the surface of the planet Earth. For a national
airliner, aircraft or potential incoming missile. The newsecurity standpoint it makes sense but from a civil
modern battlespace in the net-centric war and therights in constitutional standpoint it scares the bejesus
theories thereof will bring about transfer technologies,out of even the most loyal American. As a futurist
which will be used by governments to track people.many do complain of such predictions, but in making
Part of a Nation's national security and border policiessuch predictions it is possible to wake people up to
will include thermal identification and infrared tracking.such facts and thus prevent such potential
We will also track endangered species in this manner.eventualities.
We will attract birds in migrating flocks using infrared. In