Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies
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Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies
#2Because it's too inconvenient to carry a badge? Or make the badge smaller/nfc-tag-like?
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#3I am not religious, but I got enough religious programming in Sunday school that this scares the shiznitz out of me. When this embedded human chip becomes a requirement, I'm moving to an underground bunker
Revelations 13:16: And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17: so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.…
Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies
#4Because it's too inconvenient to carry a badge? Or make the badge smaller/nfc-tag-like?
That was my first thought, if you want smaller than a badge, then maybe a ring or bracelet should be tried before an implanted device!
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#5I am not religious, but I got enough religious programming in Sunday school that this scares the shiznitz out of me. When this embedded human chip becomes a requirement, I'm moving to an underground bunker Revelations 13:16: And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17: so that no one could buy or sell unless he…
Why do you think you aren't living in a modern Rome anyway? Revelations is (if you think Preterism[0] is a valid interpretation, which I tend to do) a survival manual for how to not get stomped down by the roman empire. The "mark of the beast", then, is basically a tax stamp and a document that proves you've made the correct sacrifices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#Nero .
The problem with fast-forwarding these concerns into the present day is that, in general, "we" are the ones _issuing_ those stamps, not the ones upon whom they're forced.
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#6This is as dumb as QR codes. Obviously there will be better ways to identify people for access control in the future. For example, face recognition is plummeting in cost. Systems should adapt to humans, not vice versa. This will be obsolete and the users will feel dumb for having gone through it.
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#7This has been done for entertainment reasons as far back as 2004:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3697940.stm
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#8Nope
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#9And at what point is a well meaning company going to do this and have someone object on religious grounds (due to other comments in this discussion?). Then they'll be fired, and sue due to not wanting the mark of the beast.
This has all the trappings of a great popcorn worthy story.
Re: Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies
#10>“On the other hand, I mean, people have been implanting things into their body, like pacemakers and stuff to control your heart,” he said. “That's a way, way more serious thing than having a small chip that can actually communicate with devices.”
People don't get pacemakers for fun. They get pacemakers because they're medical devices that ensure their hearts beat properly.