By Wayne Dupree
Carrying credit cards, oyster cards – even your house keys or ID – will soon become a thing of the past if bio-hackers get their way.
Younger generations, who may well have never read 1984 and similar dystopian books, will see this as convenient. No more arriving at the gym and realizing you have forgotten your gym card. We are humans, not robots! Repeat after me. “We are humans not robots” and say it one more time! “We are humans, not robots.”Individuals in Sweden are gladly accepting the microchip like its a cool novelty.
Now a Wisconsin company is also implanted its employees with a microchip. The microchip basically acts as a digital keychain of sorts sending information wirelessly from a passive chip to a reader. The idea of the implant is to assist people in doing common daily tasks like sign into the gym, unlock the doors to cars and offices, and make credit card payments.
Nobody I know would even think about doing this but again, some people think it’s cool. As for the Wisconsin company that had its employees tagged has some shaking their heads.
Sporting “I Got Chipped” T-shirts, some 40 workers at Three Square Market, a firm that makes cafeteria kiosks aimed at replacing vending machines, got tiny rice-sized microchips embedded in their hands.
Company officials said it was for convenience, a way for them to bypass using company badges and corporate log-ons to computers. Now, they can just have their hands read by a reader, similar to using a smartphone to pay for goods.
The company would like to see payments go cashless, as iPhone users do with Apple Pay. Except in this case, consumers use their hand instead of a smartphone to pay.
The chip is not a tracker nor does it have GPS in it, so the boss can’t track your movements, company officials say. Still, to those who worry about Big Brother having more control over our lives, Three Square Market President Patrick McMullan says you should, “take your cell phone and throw it away.” [USA Today]
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