RFID chips and Spimes

Imagine a world where everything is on the internet, as suggested by Sean Dodson, in his article "The Internet of Things". The technology exists to place these RFID chips and Spimes, in everyday objects and even in people. But what kind of implications could this have?

Not only could these chips make history with their profound and far reaching impact to the world around them. Imagine the effects on the consumer culture. These chips could be used to increase consumer convenience, predictability and in the end consumer satisfaction. For business, this technology would provide ultimate and valuable market research and would translate into larger and larger profits. This technology could better our lives or offer us a world of even more reduced liberties. Will we as a member of society, give up a little more of our liberty, in exchange for the benefits offered to us by our ever more encroaching society?

There is still one more issue I would like to bring up as a historian. I’m interested to know what effect this technology would have on historiography.
Imagine a historian is in the process of writing a historical biography. In the modern world there are already ample records to sift through when attempting to thoroughly understand a subject; in recent history, there are governmental, personal, even corporate records to choose from. Now imagine a world with RFID chips. There would be endless amounts of data. Even if the individual does not have an RFID chip themselves, if every object around every person does, it would be possible to recreate the entire world a person lived in based on their interactions with objects in the world. These every day objects would have a complete provenance on record. One would know the location and history of the objects throughout their existence and could essentially use this information to track movements and actions of historical events and figures. With these objects also recording and transmitting this information it could be accessible and stored for possibly eternity in the archives of the internet. It would stand to reason that such useful and potentially profitable information would not just end with the destruction of the object, it’s more likely that this information would be stored for future research and reference purposes. Historians could access this information and have to ability to recreate the actions of every person during every event in modern history simply by accessing the logs of nearby objects. Such ability would offer historians a truly new tool to examine history. To assign a neologism, It would be possible to have almost total-micro history. With this type of technology, the only mystery left to the historian would be access to the actual mind of the subject. Who knows where technology will take us next.