“Sliders” episode “Please Press One”(S5E6) has the team sliding into a world where everyone is microchipped and reduced down to a number. Pretty standard for science fiction. Every time you wave your hand, walk through a door, buy a newspaper – the chip records it all. “In Time” (2011) starring Justin Timberlake got a little edgier where the currency was time rather than cash, but the technology was still embedded in each person’s arm.
The key scenario is that no action or transaction takes place without the system knowing it. We all know GPS tracks your cell phone whether its turned on or off. Every single transaction you make with your debit or credit card is recorded. We’ve been living with Big Brother for years now. But now…but now its in you. Now you wont be able to leave it home.
This is a man in Wisconsin whose company just had the employees microchipped. The company threw a party while it had it done.
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Its here in the United States now. The news report uses the language that Three Market Square is the first to “offer” this program. But imbedding chips into human beings should have been one of the big things we fought as human beings to keep utterly illegal. Its not “convenient.” Its pervasive. You wont be able to buy or sell without it soon. You wont be able to open your apartment or start your car. It may not be the biblical mark of the Beast, but functionally, there’s not a damn bit of difference.
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