Will you accept a microchip implant as a payment method?

That may be the case, Silence and I can live with being labelled like that, but in my defence, surely my opinion is at least valid for me, no ? I don't live in your head. You may welcome the whole caboodle but I don't. I see problems lurking on the horizon but I don't want to go into detail about that. 

"Mark my words, we're doomed !" (Be quiet, Frazer !)

I wasn't attempting to be pejorative at all.  (Hence the "wink" emoji)

I'm not sure how all this turns out either, but I am constantly reminding myself that every generation of older folk tend to see change in tech as a bad thing.  Hell, we were being told in the 70's that television would be the end of athletics as kids just sat on their butts.

There's also a ton of evidence supporting the notion that today is the best day to be born in history.  Infant mortality at all time lows across the globe.  Life expectancy longer now than at any time in history.  Etc etc.

I do think this digital age we're evolving through has pitfalls but are they really any more stark than what we've faced over the arch of our existence?  I certainly don't know.