Thousands of people in Sweden are having futuristic microchips implanted into their skin to carry out everyday activities and replace credit cards and cash.
More than 4,000 people have already had the sci-fi-like chips, about the size of a grain of rice, inserted into their hands — with the pioneers predicting millions will soon join them as they hope to take it global.
Like glorified smartwatches, the chips help Swedes monitor their health, replace keycards to allow them to enter offices and buildings and enabling owners to pay in stores with a simple swipe of the hand, a big deal in a forward-looking country that is moving towards eliminating cash.
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Buts nuts no privacy
such chips are usually implanted in dogs. is this where we are headed? well, we all see that the world is going to the dogs.
What’s the difference between this and when someone instead of being in jail wears an electronic bracelet on his foot. Both are able to trace where the person is at any time.
The difference is this implant is for fools who are not concerned about their privacy and the anklet bracelets hidden under their pants are for criminals.
This reminds me of what they allegedly did to snake pliskin in Escape from New York. Lemaaseh it turned out not to be the case. It was only a hechroch for him to save the President. It wasn’t emmes. The President’s lack of hakaras hatov was troubling to me.