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IBM sees Future of MICROCHIPS in DNA
Aug 17 10:33 PM US/Eastern
Ok, let me get this straight. G.I. Joe comes out with a movie August 7th where these very, very small computers get injected into humans and serve as a short circuit bypass of the brain and neurological system. THEN, 10 days later IBM says: “Hey, we’re already looking into that technology.” … »
Biochips for Everyone!
By Daren Fonda
TIME.COM
If someone proposed injecting a computer chip in your arm and said it could save your life, would you do it? As Orwellian as it sounds, VeriChip is betting this will be a billion-dollar business. The firm’s parent company, Applied Digital Solutions, won FDA approval last year for what it bills as the… »
When Cash Is Only Skin Deep
Julia Scheeres /Wired Magazine/
The VeriChip has a unique number for the implanted person. The actual chip is about the size of a grain of rice.
A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin.
Applied Digital Solutions CEO Scott Silverman said he believes… »
GPS shoes for Alzheimer’s patients
Technology … plans are afoot to develop shoes with a built-in GPS device that could help track down “wandering” Alzheimer’s Disease sufferers / AFP
For those of you who have had heard me run my mouth, I’d like to ask: “Didn’t I tell you so?” I told you elderly people with Alzheimers will be prime targets for… »
VIP at the Baja Beach Club
All of the cool kids are doing it, so why not; right?
Is this a “slippery slope”? I think so. The host (narrator) says: “Some think that soon everyone will have a chip that will identify them and allow a new form of surveillance”. The club manager believes in 20 years, it’ll be a normal… »
Meet The Chipsons
Resistance is Futile!
Note the Hegelian key points in this article:
Thesis:
· The first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable computer device called VeriChip.
· Could the airlines or government really require pilots to get chipped?
Antithesis:
· “People have been worried about Big Brother for years,”
· “Here [in the U.S.] we’re still dealing with FDA and privacy… »
L.A. County jail tags inmates with RFID
I bet you thought this was only for those under “house arrest’ huh? Well, think again! Now this is one of those instances where RFID and human tracking is going to be used for good … relatively speaking. But of course most of us don’t go to prison, so other application will have to come to… »
RFID VeriChip Story on CBS 46, with Katherine Albrecht
Local News! How about that? Now, are you concerned? Now local news is doing a story! Funny thing, when it’s national news people tend to distance themselves from the subject with: “Oh, that’s “them” over there. I’m glad that’s not “here”. Well … here you are. What do you think?… »
Injectable chip opens door to ‘human bar code’
Welcome to “Hegelian Principle 101”. Make no mistake about it, the benefits of these implants will always precede the drawbacks when they are covered; which is in true Hegelian fashion. As the article say’s; participation will be “voluntary”. But as we all know, anything that starts out as “voluntary” while also having the elements of you… »