{"id":510,"date":"2020-05-22T00:31:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-ethiks.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2020-05-22T00:31:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:31:14","slug":"hello-im-5579a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bio-ethiks.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/hello-im-5579a\/","title":{"rendered":"HELLO I’M 5579A"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Sliders” episode “Please Press One”(S5E6) has the team sliding into a world where everyone is microchipped and reduced down to a number.\u00a0 Pretty standard for science fiction. Every time you wave your hand, walk through a door, buy a newspaper – the chip records it all.\u00a0 “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.<\/p>\n

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The key scenario is that no action or transaction takes place without the system knowing it.\u00a0 We all know GPS tracks your cell phone whether its turned on or off.\u00a0 Every single transaction you make with your debit or credit card is recorded.\u00a0 We’ve been living with Big Brother for years now.\u00a0 But now…but now its in you.\u00a0 Now you wont be able to leave it home.<\/p>\n

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This is a man in Wisconsin whose company just had the employees microchipped.\u00a0 The company threw a party while it had it done.<\/p>\n

company throws microchip party<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Three Market Square employee demonstrates how her embedded microchip allows her to buy a drink. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Tim Gruber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Its here in the United States now.\u00a0 The news report uses the language that Three Market Square is the first to “offer” this program.\u00a0 But imbedding chips into human beings should have been one of the big things we fought as human beings to keep utterly illegal.\u00a0 Its not “convenient.”\u00a0 Its pervasive.\u00a0 You wont be able to buy or sell without it soon.\u00a0 You wont be able to open your apartment or start your car.\u00a0 It may not be the biblical mark of the Beast, but functionally, there’s not a damn bit of difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Sliders” episode “Please Press One”(S5E6) has the team sliding into a world where everyone is microchipped and reduced down to a number.\u00a0 Pretty standard for science fiction. Every time you wave your hand, walk through a door, buy a newspaper – the chip records it all.\u00a0 “In Time” (2011) starring Justin Timberlake got a little…<\/p>\n

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