On networking website LinkedIn, entrepreneur Wojtek Paprota calls himself a 'transhumanism believer'.
He is referring to a radical, but growing, movement that wants humans to use technology to evolve beyond their physical limitations.
The British-Polish businessman is founder of Walletmor — which claims to be the first company in the world to sell contactless bank-card chips that can be implanted into humans.
The procedure is simple, if bloody, and leaves customers with a small stitch below the wrist.
Once the chip is in, users no longer have to bother with debit or credit cards. To make a purchase they can wave their hand over a contactless reader. It might sound like a dystopian fantasy, but Walletmor is evidence of how quickly the payment industry is progressing.
From chip implants to facial recognition software on your mobile, this new technology is aiming to consign cash and bank cards to the history books.
But is the rapidly growing sector dangerously out of its depth? Certainly Walletmor appears to be.
What rubbish, how many places in the world are without regular power? No power, no chip readers. You stupid self obsessed city folk need to get out of town and look around. Do you actually believe everybody in the world lives as you do? Do you think the power grid will be reliable if essential workers are all vaccinated? We humans will quickly develop our own money/ trade system.
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