a new year on the horizon, and Wired's take on the future gets me thinking, along with another article on national ID's, and so, I'd like one. First in line. Sign me up. Store away my fingerprint, start keeping track of everything I do, everything I buy, where I walk, where I stand. Privacy, ha. Ease of use? gimme gimme gimme. Things I'm definitely willing to trade. I'd love to be able to look back over all the things I've done over the years, and have records of where I've been, what I've eaten, how much I paid. i'd love to see future products tossed my direction based on previous likes or dislikes. i'd love to have my past be a filter for my future. which brings to mind another slashdot post about information pollution. either I start taking care of it personally, which is a little too hard, or let someone else start taking care of it. i'm definitely gliding over details, just the pure surface thoughts, without any real digging of effect all this might have, but why can't I have biometrics to figure out who i am? do i have to commit a crime to get my fingerprints in a big database? are my dental records recent enough to figure out who i am? DNA finger print? somewhere? anywhere? i'd love to start tying my financial records into my physical self, since i'm not too worried about being able to upload/download myself to machines or other bodies. i want it. what have i got to hide?