Why Do We Even Need Physical, Stamped Passports?Make no mistake about it: the technology is there. It’s been there. Facial recognition and biometric scans are now being used to board planes, and before they went mainstream, they were long in development behind the scenes. For the past decade, from the very moment you stepped foot into any modern airport in the world, the powers that be knew who you were and where you came from. Yet, we still have to go through the literal motions of filling our magic, index card-sized stamp books when entering and exiting a country or block. Even better, when you’ve collected too many magic stamps, you have to start your collection from scratch. Most identification card renewals are a mundane enough process. This one takes your guess of somewhere between two and three months and you’ll just have to cope with it, bro. In this fully digital world we’re living in, where our every piece of data indicates to the rest of the digital sphere who we are, why are we still required to hang onto physical passport books? | 