One more step toward a nifty little chip you can put in your hand, or even forehead, under the skin. It can hold all of your information! Great news! It will only take a pledge to satan incarnate, and drinking the full cup of God's wrath, but hey, as long as we're safe!
Another great picture and I agree despite the fact Im too scientific to believe in that revealation stuff but Orwellian government is definitely possible.
There was a big stir around 2000, when the digital angel came out. The manufacturer'shad planned to offer it as a subcutaneous implant, but backed off because of the negative publicity. They now put it in watches and other stuff. Their web site is
here. It's going to happen eventually. Every time someone proposes it, the outcry gets a little fainter. The marginalization of the Church is almost complete, so I think you'll see it within five years, and mandatory soon after that. People keeping track of their children and monitoring people in ill health first, mandatory for criminals after that, then to high government officials (heck, they may have them already), military, government employees, government contractors, finally replacing the social security card.