@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 27 days agoThe Paper Passport Is Dyingwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down133 cross-posted to: hackernews
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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish39•27 days ago“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart” - Carlos Santana
minus-squareNaibofTabrlinkfedilinkEnglish36•27 days agoBut also we’ll track everyone everywhere they go, with facial recognition.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish4•27 days agoWhat if I told you the idea of a passport was invented about 600 years ago and nobody needed permission to travel before that
“One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart” - Carlos Santana
But also we’ll track everyone everywhere they go, with facial recognition.
We’ll go extinct eventually so that’s true.
What if I told you the idea of a passport was invented about 600 years ago and nobody needed permission to travel before that
I’d say that’s a neat factoid.