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General Science / Re: How smaller can GPS trackers get?

« on: 05/11/2021 18:29:34 »

In reply to "Bored chemist":

I think that with the progress of technology is very unlikely you can avoid governments having more pervasive surveillance systems.
Since we are going to have them we will have only two options:
1) To let them be in the hands of a few: the powerful ones, the governments, the police state, the elites.
or
2) To democratize them, giving public access of all that data to all citizens and AI systems.

I think the second option is the one that can avoid the totalitarian abuses you are talking about.

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General Science / Re: How smaller can GPS trackers get?

« on: 05/11/2021 17:21:02 »

So that if you were kidnapped the kidnappers did not find out you had one inside your body.

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General Science / How smaller can GPS trackers get?

« on: 05/11/2021 14:34:27 »

How smaller can GPS trackers get?

Hello, I would like to know what is the expected size in the future and how small can GPS trackers, namely those that will be able to harvest energy from radiation to perpetuate their autonomy, can get. How smaller can GPS trackers get?
Also, is there any way they can be done with materials (graphene and nanotubes, perhaps?) that cannot be detected with metal detectors?

Hopefully, we will have GPS trackers (that can harvest energy from radiowaves: to perpetuate their autonomy) - smaller than a grain of salt - inside our bodies, able to send signals to the internet.
We already have them quite small, and we can put them inside pretty much anything that can be stolen: like a piano, a TV, a tablet or a motor-bike.
I want to live in a world where everything is being tracked to the clouds at all times,
and where everyone's voice and biometric signals (including pupil dilation and Galvanic Skin Response) are being recorded and analyzed.