Bar-code children

Fear not. Science, corporate America, and government bureaucrats are teaming up to keep better tabs on your children by digitizing them better.

In a creepy new video from Microsoft and Los Angeles’s public school district, the narrator asks, “Has this conversation taken place in your home?” before the video zooms in on a cartoon child who says, “Mom, I’m scared about going back to school. I don’t wanna get sick, and I don’t wanna get you and Dad sick.” Yes, there are students who are scared of returning to school, but that’s not the real locus of fear here.