"Actor Patrick McGoohan's words are becoming less and less true as technology extends its cheerless remit. "I am not a number," he declared in the cult TV series The Prisoner, "I am a free man."
But increasingly we are numbers , digitized and quantified, rewritten as algorithms and asked for our personal codes to confirm who we are before call center workers will deign to bandy words with us. As if to prove the point, from last Tuesday morning in the UK anyone with a chip and pin card will be obliged to use their pin number and not their signature when making a purchase..." (Stuart Jeffries / THE GUARDIAN)
more @: TaipeiTimes.com
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