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Christopher Lloyd's character displays a future version of USA TODAY in one of the movies from the "Back to the Future" series. (Photo: Universal Pictures file)


While three decades later, most of us still use good old-fashioned keys or key cards to enter our homes and offices, biometric security is quickly becoming the norm as technology develops. And the concept that it could be used to access financial accounts is as simple as activating your Twitter feed.

While thumb amputations still seem a bit, well Hollywood, the idea of stealing or counterfeiting biometric characteristics is not out of the realm of criminal thought. The Blackberry revolution of the late 1990s was a giant step in the human evolutionary process, one in which we became capable of using our thumbs to communicate and survive.

Previous thumb use — confined to hitchhiking, green thumbs, thumbs in the eye, Fonzie-like thumbs-up mating attempts and the ubiquitous Facebook "like" button — could only take us so far. Now, great novels can be written with thumbs. Journalists thumb from the front lines. Drones flown by pilot thumbs can bomb terrorists thousands of miles away. Great ships of war can be directed across video game screens and seas of virtual reality. And, of course, we initiate banking transactions, access airline tickets and summon Uber rides with them.

Thumb prints at your local police station are now used by Little League baseball teams to vet the records of potential coaches for children. The "Global Entry" system for entering the U.S. from outside its borders hinges on finger recognition, though not thumbs. "Fat finger" trades have disrupted stock markets and just this week caused Deutsche Bank to announce it had mistakenly sent $6 billion to a hedge fund client. Indeed, the criminal opportunity for counterfeit, or stolen, thumbs and assorted digits seems bigger every day.

Thumb-branding, popular as a way of identifying criminals in 18th-century England, could be revived, perhaps as a fashion fad in today's tattoo-obsessed culture. Thumb farms could sprout up, using DNA technology to grow a sinister army of cyber-outlaws, perhaps known as the Rule of Thumb, and with the ability to access all but the smallest financial portals. The Rolling Stones song Under My Thumb could be its anthem.

What Gale envisioned, viewed now from the prism of the future, might still seem as crazy now as it did then. But after all we've lived through that has come true since the movie series, we'd be silly to, uh, thumb our noses at it.

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Karakter Christopher Lloyd kang nampilake versi mangsa USA TODAY ing salah siji saka film saka "Bali menyang Future" seri. (Photo: Pictures Universal berkas) Nalika telung puluh mengko, paling kita isih nggunakake tombol lawas-gaya apik utawa kertu tombol kanggo ngetik omah-omahé lan kantor kita, keamanan biometric wis cepet dadi pakewuh minangka teknologi develops. Lan konsep sing bisa digunakake kanggo ngakses akun financial minangka prasaja minangka ngaktifake feed Twitter. Nalika jempol amputations isih koyone dicokot, uga Hollywood, ing idea saka nyolong utawa counterfeiting ciri biometric ora metu saka dunyo pamikiran pidana. Revolusi Blackberry saka taun 1990-an ana langkah buta ing proses evolusi manungsa, siji kang kita dadi saged nggunakake jempol kita saperlu komunikasi lan urip. Previous jempol nggunakake - Dibuwang hitchhiking, jempol ijo, jempol ing mripat, Fonzie- kaya jempol-up usaha kawin lan ono ing ngendi panggonan Facebook "kaya" tombol - mung bisa njupuk kita supaya adoh. Saiki, novel-novel gedhe bisa ditulis nganggo jempol. Tiyang ingkang golek warta jempol saka garis ngarep. Drones mibur dening jempol pilot bisa bom teroris ewu mil adoh. Gedhe kapal-kapal perang bisa langsung tengen layar video game lan segara saka virtual kasunyatan. Lan, mesthi, kita miwiti transaksi perbankan, maskapai karcis akses lan nyeluk DI UBER nitih karo wong-wong mau. Thumb prints ing stasiun polisi lokal sing saiki digunakake dening tim baseball Little Liga dokter kewan cathetan pelatih potensial kanggo bocah-bocah. "Global Entri" sistem kanggo ngetik US saka njaba wates hinges ing pangenalan driji, sanadyan ora jempol. "Driji Lemak" dagang wis kaganggu pasar Simpenan lan mung minggu iki nyebabake Deutsche Bank kanggo ngumumke salah wis dikirim $ 6 milyar kanggo klien dana pager. Pancen, ing kesempatan pidana kanggo counterfeit, utawa dicolong, jempol lan macem-macem digit misale jek ageng saben dina. Thumb-branding, misuwur minangka cara Ngenali kriminal ing abad kaping-18 Inggris, bisa pulih maneh, mbok menawa minangka fad fashion ing tattoo- dina budaya kepengin banget. Farms jempol bisa sprout munggah, nggunakake teknologi DNA kanggo tuwuh tentara serem cyber-outlaws, mbok menawa dikenal minangka Aturan Thumb, lan karo kemampuan kanggo ngakses kabeh nanging portal financial cilik. Rolling Stones song Sangisore Thumb Kula saged anthem sawijining. Apa Gale envisioned, viewed saiki saka prisma saka mangsa, bisa uga isih koyone minangka edan saiki kaya banjur. Nanging sawise kabeh kita wis urip liwat sing wis kayektenan wiwit film seri, kita ngene dadi boten sae kanggo, uh, jempol irung kita ing iku.