Posted on 01/30/2015 4:29:58 PM PST by 9thLife
Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.
Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.
That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.
On the day of the building's official opening, the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too.
The whole process is being organised by a Swedish bio-hacking group which was profiled by my colleague Jane Wakefield recently. One of its members, a rather fearsome looking tattooist, inserted my chip.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
no thank-u.
To be sure, they need to place one in their forehead as well.
Thank yer god you can say that. Unfortunately, it looks like someday in the foreseeable future all the goodies will be contingent upon your being logged in to that big server in the sky...with the approved device, of course.
The sheep are volunteering to be sheared. Pathetic.
Could be worse, I guess. They could implant it in yer butt. Paying for a soda then...well, I don’t want to think about it.
Never in a million years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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there will be ways around it.
Nope, I am not a dog. Maybe just a trial run for the inevitable.......
Then, to make things "more secure" and keep your electronic debit card from being stolen, they will offer to have a chip inserted with links to all of your financial and medical information.
Finally, they will eliminate the cards completely and the only way to conduct any financial transactions or get medical care will be if you have your chip...
We've only known about this for 2000 years or so. :-)
That, FRiend, strikes me as an avocation. Perhaps even a vocation.
Burglars no longer need to steal keys, pick locks or disable security systems. All they need to do now is find an employee and lop off a body part.
The forehead is for international / state travel, and high security clearance.
Thank God we didn't elect an ID thief for president, that required access to everyone's bank account.
Oh wait....
Mark of the Beast, baby.
Never let ‘em do it.
I think I would rather die than be chipped like an animal.
No, I’d rather cap the chap attempting to put a chip in me like an animal.
Do they put Salsa on those chips?
Yep, the forehead or the right hand. What an “opportunity” to be chipped...
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