[quote]Firm plans to sell implantable devices that can store a variety of data about you.
A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening.
Implantable chips have long been discussed by technologists and denounced by those who object on religious grounds or fear their use by a totalitarian state. But the company that did the test, Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, said the specter of terrorism is shifting attitudes. The direct union of man and computer is no longer dismissed out of hand.
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000100545dec19.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusines s%2Dmanual" target="_blank">LA Times</a>. 12/19/2001<hr></blockquote>
I suppose I wouldn't mind a chip under my skin as long as it was a G5! Seriously though, this technology freaks me out. I though human bar-codes were supposed to come first...
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A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening.
Implantable chips have long been discussed by technologists and denounced by those who object on religious grounds or fear their use by a totalitarian state. But the company that did the test, Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, said the specter of terrorism is shifting attitudes. The direct union of man and computer is no longer dismissed out of hand.
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000100545dec19.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusines s%2Dmanual" target="_blank">LA Times</a>. 12/19/2001<hr></blockquote>
I suppose I wouldn't mind a chip under my skin as long as it was a G5! Seriously though, this technology freaks me out. I though human bar-codes were supposed to come first...
[ 12-19-2001: Message edited by: zonetuke ]</p>










, and the reason I don't hope it happens in my lifetime is because it will be the WORST 7 years of my life getting there. :eek: