The Paper Passport Is Dying
Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
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“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.
