Trust me, along with drones, these frontier-settling technologies will most definitely infiltrate our society in coming years, just like the military's Internet and GPS did before.Thomas P. M. Barnett offers a kindred point of view on the role biometrics are playing in the continuing march of globalization and global development.
He also touches upon the privacy vs. anonymity topic we discussed here.
The linked Time.com piece is short, densely packed with useful insights, and well worth the time of a thorough read.