It's begun: Human chipping

[annemcclure23]

Does anyone else see a problem with this?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

[shadowstalker]

Office puts chips under staff's skin
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The chip allows employees to open doors and use the photocopier without a traditional pass card
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Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.

Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.

That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.

On the day of the building's official opening, the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too.

The whole process is being organised by a Swedish bio-hacking group which was profiled by my colleague Jane Wakefield recently. One of its members, a rather fearsome looking tattooist, inserted my chip.

First, he massaged the skin between my thumb and index finger and rubbed in some disinfectant. The he told me to take a deep breath while he inserted the chip. There was a moment of pain - not much worse than any injection - and then he stuck a plaster over my hand.

Before trying my chip out, I wanted to know more about the thinking behind it. Hannes Sjoblad, whose electronic business card is on his own chip and can be accessed with a swipe of a smartphone, has the title chief disruption officer at the development. I asked him whether people really wanted to get this intimate with technology.

"We already interact with technology all the time," he told me. "Today it's a bit messy - we need pin codes and passwords. Wouldn't it be easy to just touch with your hand? That's really intuitive."

When I tested my chip, I found that it was not all that intuitive - I had to twist my hand into an unnatural position to make the photocopier work. And while some of the people around the building were looking forward to being chipped, others were distinctly dubious. "Absolutely not," said one young man when I asked him if he'd sign up. An older woman was more positive about the potential of the technology but saw little point in being chipped just to get through a door.

But Hannes Sjoblad says he and the Swedish Biohacking Group have another objective - preparing us all for the day when others want to chip us. "We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped - the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip." Then, he says, we'll all be able to question the way the technology is implemented from a position of much greater knowledge.

I've returned to Britain with a slightly sore hand - and a chip still under my skin which has my contact details on it. Not that useful, but no doubt more sophisticated chips will soon replace wearable technology like fitness bands or payment devices, and we will get used to being augmented. All sorts of things are possible - whether it becomes culturally acceptable to insert technology beneath our skin is another matter.

[Citizen No2]

I was stunned. A chip in the hand to, amongst other things, open a door!



Regards.

[EWO]

Thats how they get the sheeple.

Today its a optional cool new device that makes your life easier. No more fiddling with keys. Fools rush in.
Tomorrow its mandatory and you need it to buy food and live. Fools are now slaves.

[Sunny-side-up]

Total MADNESS!

[Bob]

Futurama - the Career Chip

[East Sun]

Absolutely no f*cking way. This is how they start it, with one of their lackeys, probably in a suit showing the sheeple that it's no big deal.

When or if it ever becomes mandatory they better have their goons with loaded guns ready to shoot objectors because I'll be the first objector.

Hopefully we will have awakened enough people to stop the bastards. Chipping is a form of slavery. Live free or die!!!!!!!!!

[avid]

BBC interviewed professor on breakfast show, who advocated being chipped, to get through queues faster at passport control! Control being the operative word! The sycophantic presenters agreed, and said it would be a good thing!

[Cognitive Dissident]

Although it sounds impossible to many of us on this forum, there are arguments which sound compelling to many in the mainstream.

These are the use of chips for medical records (e.g. blood type and any allergies) as well as building access and security, and possibly personal identification.

There is no point in denying that it could be helpful for emergency doctors to know somebody's blood type and if they were allergic to any medicines in a few seconds, even if they were unconscious.

However... the potential future negative use of such chips is so huge, they absolutely must not be allowed to take hold.

Interestingly, even Wikipedia flags that there is a cancer risk (based on testing on mice) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microch...nt_%28human%29

... as well as that chips sound an awful lot like the Mark of the Beast:

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
—Revelation 13:16-17, King James Version Bible

I'm not big on Revelation, but I have to say: you can't say it much clearer than that.

It's like so many things in modern society. If you look at it on a very small level, maybe it's a good thing, but as soon as you zoom back and take a broader view, it's obviously very bad.

Perhaps, if I can wear my conspiracy hat for a moment, this is why society encourages everyone to specialise and tries to dissuade us from looking at the "big picture" - too complicated, etc...

Still, I think human chipping, like the development of strong AI, is a litmus test for humanity - if we collectively allow this to happen, it's just total craziness. Sorry not be more articulate about the conclusion, but you get the point.

Edit: Dannion Brinkley was warned about human chipping during his first NDE in 1975, and told us about it a long time ago: http://www.dannion.com/human-chippin...-of-the-beast/

[Heartsong]

And then what happens when they change the locks on the doors? Line up, it's time for another chip and an excision of the old one?
And when you change jobs, you get an additional chip?
And the company lunch room changes vendors?
And you change the bank where the lunch room charges are posted?

Was wearing a lanyard with an ID card really that inconvenient that we'll need minor surgery for minor life changes?

[ghostrider]

Right out of the Enoch prophecies , 9,000 years ago he predicted every human would be chipped , enslaved to a system of control under a one world government , hint - a beast rising out of the sea having seven heads with seven crowns up it's head = a system rising out of the people , a one world system , one government , one money system , one army , one economy , one religion etc ...

[tnkayaker]

this is a pretty simple one folks, they make it out to be a "good option" in an office setting , then tell the employees to make things easier and to stop erroneous theft of copier use, they are going to chip us..... um wait a sec copier use? copier use! good LORD yeh so i got a job at this office dad and they make it so easy to use the copy machine, i just had to get this little implant in my hand and now i just wave it over a pick up area on the machine and presto...copies! im sure no harm will come of this dad, what they want to chip little Billy for school? hmm yeh sure why not hey i got one everyone should just get one, then figure out a way to use these things, man this is going to make life so much better, this is great we are all going to get chips, they say this is the way to make things better got a chip? get a copy, no chip, no copy, no chipy no lunchy i have just about seen it all, the spin is so annoying, but things of this magnitude obviously had to be disguised and a way to stop copier theft or make the office environment better...so they say, get a chip to join/be in the "in" crowd.....hmmmmm

[Flash]

What do they do when you lose your job? They chop your hand? (yes yes, I know, they deactivate a chip that remains in your hand....... I would not trust an employer not to use it to make sure I do not go to his competitor or worse, turn it on to listen to what I am doing in the competitor's office - or yet worse, send a signal to kill me before I give information away))

[Yetti]

Yes I have a problem. No one need this, the excuse for the convenience of open doors, operate copy machines , or any other silly thing we use to do with our hands and arms, as HUMANS we've being doing for eons , is out of the reality. Someone is trying to create a necesity and also convince the people that this chips are the solution for the modern life stile . Non of this companies tell you what could happen if you wear a chip: your vital signs could be monitored as well: your position 24/7 ( GPS), your conversations, emotions, and you can ad what ever you want,. So WHO CONTROL THE PEOPLE that watch your status with the chip? Is the total end of your privacy . A chip or implant can deliver, a virus or a manufactured nano desease. I'm talking about OLD TECH ALREADY!. Is the end of the free will and a surrender to a total control over your life!. I do not like the idea.

[East Sun]

Re: Cognitive Dissident's Bible Quote..........

You do not have to believe Biblical prophecy. Prophecies are 'maybes'. imo.

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Most of all beware of the paid 'lackeys' who sell their soul for a few pieces of silver.

When we stick together we can beat them. Never give up. There's too much to loose, actually everything that means anything.

We're living in a strange time where we need/have to be vigilant at all times. It may take only a few years, so hang in there.

[jerry]

the 1st 2 minutes Aaron lays out the best argument against chipping todate I have heard, then the truth comes out, the end goal. Its an old clip but fits perfectly with the thread.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FuinaIm-kd4

[Aspen]

I winder how easy it is for someone else to dig the chip out of your hand? I could see some criminals thinking this is a good idea . . .

[Citizen No2]

This just in:

PUBLISHED: February 2, 2015 5:00 pm
Islander invents microchips for children
MICROCHIPS could be implanted in children and used by parents to track their movements, if a Jersey inventor’s plan gets off the ground.

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Stephen Fern with a receiver implant which can be used to track lost children





The microchips, which could be sewn into clothes or even placed under a child’s skin, would send a GPS signal to parents to allow the youngster to be monitored.

Islander Stephen Fern, who has developed another app, called Lost-Kidz, which is used by millions of parents around the world to send alerts to people nearby if their child goes missing, is the man behind the idea.


http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/20...-for-children/




Oh Dear.




Regards

[Abevan]

This news has ruined my day. Totally.

[East Sun]

Forget about under the skin--that is not acceptable under any conditions.

NO, NO, NO---NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!