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As Our Society Becomes Digitally Integrated - Microchip Implants Only A Matter Of Time
February 17, 2014 | Tom Olago
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Many people today, especially those from the younger generation consider it “cool” to follow fads and fashion related trends. Traditionally these have been centered on ear, nose and belly rings, hair styles, tattoos, and various forms of dressing, branded jewelry, even lingo and diet.
These fads have been heavily influenced mainly by influential Hollywood and pop/rock music stars, fashion models and sports celebrities. However it’s now also generally considered “cool”, “trendy”, “cutting edge”, “hip” and “hot” to use “wearable technology” such as RFID microchip implants.
Michael Snyder, author of the book “The Beginning of The End” in his analysis of a recent BBC story titled “Why I want a microchip implant” states:
“We are told that such implants could solve a whole host of societal problems. Identity theft and credit card fraud would be nearly eliminated, many other forms of crime would be significantly reduced, children would never go missing and we wouldn’t have to remember a vast array of passwords and PIN numbers like we do now.
We are told that if we just adopted such technology that our lives would be so much better. But is that really the case? As our society becomes “digitally integrated”, technologists tell us that it is “inevitable” that wearable technology will become as common as smart phones are today…
Ultimately, implanted microchips offer a way to make your physical body machine-readable. Currently, there is no single standard of communicating with the machines that underpin society – from building access panels to ATMs – but an endless diversity of identification systems: magnetic strips, passwords, PIN numbers, security questions, and dongles.
All of these are attempts to bridge the divide between your digital and physical identity, and if you forget or lose them, you are suddenly cut off from your bank account, your gym, your ride home, your proof of ID, and more. An implanted chip, by contrast, could act as our universal identity token for navigating the machine-regulated world.”
Snyder goes on to elaborate by citing some examples from the BBC story, showing why the implanted chip day is already here for some people:
1. People lining up to get chipped at some Technology conferences: “This month at the Transhuman Visions conference in San Francisco, Graafstra (a self-described “adventure technologist” and founder of biohacking company Dangerous Things in Seattle, Washington) set up an “implantation station” offering attendees the chance to be chipped at $50 a time. Using a large needle designed for microchipping pets, Graafstra injected a glass-coated RFID tag the size of a rice grain into each volunteer. By the end of the day Graafstra had created 15 new cyborgs.
2. Batteries powered by the human body: According to a recent article by Kristan Harris entitled Scientists Develop Human-Powered Battery For RFID Implantable Chips: “… A group of United States and Chinese researchers have collaborated to create tiny implantable batteries that feed off of human energy.
These thin, flexible mechanical energy harvesters had been successfully tested on cows. The process uses what is known as conformal piezoelectric energy harvesting and storage from motions of the heart, lung, and diaphragm. In the future, they say, it could be used to power a range of gadgets. Will it be long until you will charge your I-phone by plugging into your own body?
3. Non – implanted chips already being used to track children in the U.S and U.K:
§ In the U.S, according to an Associated Press report, each student at the CCC-George Miller preschool will don a jersey with a stitched-in RFID chip. Sensors in the school will record their movements and register class and meal attendance…Officials from the school have claimed they’re only recording information they’re required to provide while receiving federal funds for their Headstart program.
§ In the U.K, RFID microchips (placed on wristband sensors), are being used to track children wherever they go , with parents being notified of diversions to their children’s routes home, as well as when they arrive. An integrated home network allows parents to be alerted via their phones and tablets.
Although these children have not yet been physically implanted, the technology to transition to implants would be an easy step. These examples illustrate the diversity of how the technology can be used.
4. Introduction of “Smart Tattoos”: Snyder refers his readers to an expert from a Gizmodo.com article excerpt, which challenges the traditional thinking of tattoos being merely body art:
““Everyone from neurologists to biohackers is reinventing the very idea of the tattoo. With the right technology, tattoos can do a lot more than just look beautiful or badass. They can become digital devices as useful and complex as the smartphone that bounces around in your pocket. It sounds wildly futuristic, but the technology already exists… Materials scientist John Rogers is doing some pretty incredible work with flexible electronics that stick to your skin like a temporary tattoo.
These so-called “epidural electronics” can do anything from monitoring your body’s vital signs to alerting you when you’re starting to get sunburn. Rogers and his company MC10 are currently trying to figure out ways to get the electronics to communicate with other devices like smartphones so that they can start building apps”.
Snyder states that this “wearable computing” is now just the tip of the iceberg, and that what we will see in the future is probably far beyond anything that any of us could imagine right now. According to extremetech.com, Motorola actually has a patent for a tattoo that will take commands from unvocalized words in your throat.
“The tattoo they have in mind is actually one that will be emblazoned over your vocal cords to intercept subtle voice commands — perhaps even subvocal commands or even the fully internal whisperings that fail to pluck the vocal cords when not given full cerebral approval. One might even conclude that they are not just patenting device communications from a patch of smartskin, but communications from your soul.”
Snyder concludes: “We are rapidly entering a dystopian future in which it will be “normal” for technology to monitor our movements 24 hours a day. Most people will probably welcome this change, but it also opens up the door for an oppressive government to someday greatly abuse this technology…what happens if we are all required to have “electronic identity tattoos” someday?...What happens if you are not able to get a job, have a bank account or buy anything without “proper identification”?
This is a concern shared by Bible believers. Leviticus 19:28 says “You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord”. Yet from a Bible prophecy standpoint, this is exactly what we can expect in the last days from Satan during his rule via the AntiChrist. The Book of Revelation, Chapter 13: 11-18 says:
“Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
This “mark of the beast” system would be the ultimate “smart tattoo”. So far the implants appear to be focused on hands, but the forehead alternative mentioned in Scripture will undoubtedly catch up as well. After all, we have all seen people without hands, but how many people alive exist without their heads?
The countdown rushes on…
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February 17, 2014 | Tom Olago
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Many people today, especially those from the younger generation consider it “cool” to follow fads and fashion related trends. Traditionally these have been centered on ear, nose and belly rings, hair styles, tattoos, and various forms of dressing, branded jewelry, even lingo and diet.
These fads have been heavily influenced mainly by influential Hollywood and pop/rock music stars, fashion models and sports celebrities. However it’s now also generally considered “cool”, “trendy”, “cutting edge”, “hip” and “hot” to use “wearable technology” such as RFID microchip implants.
Michael Snyder, author of the book “The Beginning of The End” in his analysis of a recent BBC story titled “Why I want a microchip implant” states:
“We are told that such implants could solve a whole host of societal problems. Identity theft and credit card fraud would be nearly eliminated, many other forms of crime would be significantly reduced, children would never go missing and we wouldn’t have to remember a vast array of passwords and PIN numbers like we do now.
We are told that if we just adopted such technology that our lives would be so much better. But is that really the case? As our society becomes “digitally integrated”, technologists tell us that it is “inevitable” that wearable technology will become as common as smart phones are today…
Ultimately, implanted microchips offer a way to make your physical body machine-readable. Currently, there is no single standard of communicating with the machines that underpin society – from building access panels to ATMs – but an endless diversity of identification systems: magnetic strips, passwords, PIN numbers, security questions, and dongles.
All of these are attempts to bridge the divide between your digital and physical identity, and if you forget or lose them, you are suddenly cut off from your bank account, your gym, your ride home, your proof of ID, and more. An implanted chip, by contrast, could act as our universal identity token for navigating the machine-regulated world.”
Snyder goes on to elaborate by citing some examples from the BBC story, showing why the implanted chip day is already here for some people:
1. People lining up to get chipped at some Technology conferences: “This month at the Transhuman Visions conference in San Francisco, Graafstra (a self-described “adventure technologist” and founder of biohacking company Dangerous Things in Seattle, Washington) set up an “implantation station” offering attendees the chance to be chipped at $50 a time. Using a large needle designed for microchipping pets, Graafstra injected a glass-coated RFID tag the size of a rice grain into each volunteer. By the end of the day Graafstra had created 15 new cyborgs.
2. Batteries powered by the human body: According to a recent article by Kristan Harris entitled Scientists Develop Human-Powered Battery For RFID Implantable Chips: “… A group of United States and Chinese researchers have collaborated to create tiny implantable batteries that feed off of human energy.
These thin, flexible mechanical energy harvesters had been successfully tested on cows. The process uses what is known as conformal piezoelectric energy harvesting and storage from motions of the heart, lung, and diaphragm. In the future, they say, it could be used to power a range of gadgets. Will it be long until you will charge your I-phone by plugging into your own body?
3. Non – implanted chips already being used to track children in the U.S and U.K:
§ In the U.S, according to an Associated Press report, each student at the CCC-George Miller preschool will don a jersey with a stitched-in RFID chip. Sensors in the school will record their movements and register class and meal attendance…Officials from the school have claimed they’re only recording information they’re required to provide while receiving federal funds for their Headstart program.
§ In the U.K, RFID microchips (placed on wristband sensors), are being used to track children wherever they go , with parents being notified of diversions to their children’s routes home, as well as when they arrive. An integrated home network allows parents to be alerted via their phones and tablets.
Although these children have not yet been physically implanted, the technology to transition to implants would be an easy step. These examples illustrate the diversity of how the technology can be used.
4. Introduction of “Smart Tattoos”: Snyder refers his readers to an expert from a Gizmodo.com article excerpt, which challenges the traditional thinking of tattoos being merely body art:
““Everyone from neurologists to biohackers is reinventing the very idea of the tattoo. With the right technology, tattoos can do a lot more than just look beautiful or badass. They can become digital devices as useful and complex as the smartphone that bounces around in your pocket. It sounds wildly futuristic, but the technology already exists… Materials scientist John Rogers is doing some pretty incredible work with flexible electronics that stick to your skin like a temporary tattoo.
These so-called “epidural electronics” can do anything from monitoring your body’s vital signs to alerting you when you’re starting to get sunburn. Rogers and his company MC10 are currently trying to figure out ways to get the electronics to communicate with other devices like smartphones so that they can start building apps”.
Snyder states that this “wearable computing” is now just the tip of the iceberg, and that what we will see in the future is probably far beyond anything that any of us could imagine right now. According to extremetech.com, Motorola actually has a patent for a tattoo that will take commands from unvocalized words in your throat.
“The tattoo they have in mind is actually one that will be emblazoned over your vocal cords to intercept subtle voice commands — perhaps even subvocal commands or even the fully internal whisperings that fail to pluck the vocal cords when not given full cerebral approval. One might even conclude that they are not just patenting device communications from a patch of smartskin, but communications from your soul.”
Snyder concludes: “We are rapidly entering a dystopian future in which it will be “normal” for technology to monitor our movements 24 hours a day. Most people will probably welcome this change, but it also opens up the door for an oppressive government to someday greatly abuse this technology…what happens if we are all required to have “electronic identity tattoos” someday?...What happens if you are not able to get a job, have a bank account or buy anything without “proper identification”?
This is a concern shared by Bible believers. Leviticus 19:28 says “You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord”. Yet from a Bible prophecy standpoint, this is exactly what we can expect in the last days from Satan during his rule via the AntiChrist. The Book of Revelation, Chapter 13: 11-18 says:
“Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
This “mark of the beast” system would be the ultimate “smart tattoo”. So far the implants appear to be focused on hands, but the forehead alternative mentioned in Scripture will undoubtedly catch up as well. After all, we have all seen people without hands, but how many people alive exist without their heads?
The countdown rushes on…
Source Click Here
