New U.S. passport cards offer travelers a choice (— a radio frequency identity chip —)

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5954336.html ^

[Quix]

Ahhhh . . .

Thanks.

Mine is good until uhhh . . . 2012.

Been wondering if I should try to renew sooner . . .

[Kevmo]

A chip in a card, wouldn’t it be easier just to put it ones right fore arm?
***Coming soon to a society near you, as foretold 2000 years ago. Revelation Chapt 13:

16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

[svcw]

So very true.
I guess I should have used the sarcasm button.
I get the “sherbets” (as my granddaughter says) when I think of how easily people will be fooled.
There are people already developing chips for children just in case they get lost.
These chips have been in animals for years, and they are so small as to be undetectable.

[Myrddin]

So, these cards are in addition to the regular passport? One carries both for international air travel?

The cards have 64K of storage on board. They contain everything found on a paper passport and room to add biometric data e.g. fingerprints, iris scan. The long term intent is to replace the paper book. My paper version was renewed around 2002, so I won't have to replace it for some time.

[Quix]

I renewed mine about then in Taipei before coming back.

Thx.