posted on January 8, 2002 01:57:35 AM
It's injectable. You'll need it to get driver's license, a credit card, an aiplane ticket. Babies can be bar coded at birth.
Radio-frequency identification chips, which have found a home in applications ranging from toll road passes to smart retail shelves, may be close to taking up residence in the human body.
A Florida-based company has introduced a passive RFID chip that is compatible with human tissue, and the developer is proposing the chip for use on implantable pacemakers, defibrillators and artificial joints. The
company, Applied Digital Solutions (Palm Beach, Fla.), also said that the chip could be injected through a syringe and used as a sort of "human bar code" in security applications.
Called the VeriChip, the device could open up a broad new segment for the $900 million-a-year RFID business, especially if society embraces the idea of using microchips for human identification. Applied Digital executives ultimately believe that the worldwide market for such implantable chips could reach $70 billion per year.
"The human market for this technology could be huge," said Keith Bolton, senior vice president of technology development at the company.
Futurists agree that the idea of using microchips inside the body could ultimately represent a large market opportunity, but they doubt whether this initial effort will have a significant effect on the RFID market.
"Are we going to see chips embedded in the human body? You bet we are," said Paul Saffo, a director of The Institute for the Future (Menlo Park, Calif.). "But it isn't going to happen overnight." So it's OK to get some sleep tonight?
posted on January 8, 2002 12:39:34 PM
In addition, this will most likely be a easy sell with all the child abductions, career criminals, wandering alzhiemers patients and terrorist activities. The powers to be will have no problem fitting every American citizen with their very own survelliance chip! Personal freedom will then become extinct.
posted on January 8, 2002 04:38:10 PM
Before it even happens, they're past the medical use stage and already thinking about ways to use it as a control device.
I can picture it now. In the future we'll be sitting around talking about the old days when chips were only implanted for I.D. purposes.
What gets me is the tail waggers that think this is a good thing....
posted on January 8, 2002 05:25:47 PM
I was wondering how they would do this since the RR [religious Right] is so against anything that resembles the mark of the beast. I had my answer right after 9-11 when they were asking people at the airpost if they would be willing to have a chip implanted so they would be "safe". The standard answer was "anything ,as long as it's not in my hand or my forehead." Stupidity reigns supreme.
posted on January 9, 2002 11:04:10 AM
but I always figured the mark of the beast thing would be much more subtle, like the swipe of a card held in the hand to allow the card holder to purchase items at the sale prices at the grocery store...after centuries of warning people, it seems odd that someone would try to sell it in that other package.
posted on January 10, 2002 10:13:39 PMrawbunzel: LOLOL!
Unfortunately, this is the sort of ignorance and stupidity that overtaken Americans. By lowering the educational standards in this country, it creates more crime and poverty, which is used to keep us managable by keeping us off-balance. With so many stupid people willing to give up their rights and freedoms so easily in the name of "security", they fail to realize that it is Freedom and Rights that give you REAL security! The oither way is simply handing power over you to the state. Chilling. Just what the excuse was for Hitler and Stalin.
posted on January 12, 2002 04:07:28 PM"but I always figured the mark of the beast thing would be much more subtle, like the swipe of a card held in the hand to allow the card holder to purchase items at the sale prices at the grocery store..."
Oh! No! Don't tell me that....I love using my credit card. Do you think I've been marked already?????
posted on January 12, 2002 07:24:16 PM
sulyn: there's a difference between voluntarily using a credit card, knowing that your spending habits are being tracked and having a national ID that you can be tracked anywhere at anytime. Kinda gives up that feeling of being loney, don't it?
