Needles and retinas are probably two things you wouldn’t associate that much. And yet… Nowadays there are more and more ways to identify each one of us. Fingerprints. Voiceprints. Dental records. Retinal scans. There is even a company producing and selling a microchip meant to be surgically inserted under people’s skin and giving access to a database containing all sorts of information: ID information, medical record, financial record or criminal record. The problem is not only about being watched all the time. It is not only a “Big Brother” situation. The problem is that with so much information right under your skin, and as easily checkable as the price of a pasta packet on a conveyor belt: people are classified just like merchandise. Your own price, your own value, under the skin of your right arm. A bar code, only invisible and a lot more powerful. Classifying you for the rest of your life. Yet I truly think we are not our bank accounts, and we are not our criminal records. People can change. People can be broke but have great, compelling ideas. We are not just files, numbers or statistics. But if your retinas classify you as a poor boy born within a poor family and with bad school results, will you ever get the chance, will you ever be given the chance to change? No matter how hard you try, if everybody keeps telling you that you are your bank account, how are you going to prove them wrong? Needles and retinas are probably two things you would associate in the end.