Um.
This morning.
Via BBC:
Wojtek Paprota., founder and chief executive of British-Polish chip firm, Walletmor, said:
“Chip implants contain the same kind of technology that people use on a daily basis
“From key fobs to unlock doors, public transit cards like the London Oyster card, or bank cards with contactless payment function.
“The reading distance is limited by the small antenna coil inside the implant. The implant needs to be within the electromagnetic field of a compatible RFID [or NFC] reader. Only when there is a magnetic coupling between the reader and the transponder can the implant can be read.
“RFID chips are used in pets to identify them when they’re lost,” he says. “But it’s not possible to locate them using an RFID chip implant – the missing pet needs to be found physically. Then the entire body gets scanned until the RFID chip implant is found and read.”
The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand (BBC)
BBC
Chipped, tagged and cashless! Welcome to the future that the complicits are enabling and applauding! Both conspiracy theory and biblical prophecy unfolding before our eyes 👇 https://t.co/BO10rCnxVZ
— Morgana 🌸 (@Morcia) April 11, 2022
Gulp.
”Biblical prophecy”.
LOL
Yeah old testament.
You remember the bit in the fourth book of the bible “Book of Numbers”.
“And lo, beware the unidentified Bluetooth numbers for they are the mark of the devil and reside within the cure for the great plague”
Double LOL
You too, Ian, you actually believe in The Great Plague, don’t you? It’s an Article of Faith for you that it really, really happened & that some hastily-assembled, half-assed, redundant technology produced a drug that actually rescued us from annihilation, a level of credulity that children cast aside as they learn there really is no Santa Claus.
Facts & Science cannot hope to prevail against such blind, ignorant superstition.
Herein lies your problem, John. You decry & mock the Bible yet you (seemingly) actually do believe there was a “great plague”, an entirely fictitious event.
The joke’s on you.
Paws for thought.
if it makes our lives easier then what’s the issue? too many alex jones types crying about nothing
The advent of digital ID may be a good thing or a terrible thing. We don’t know yet, but there’s no harm in being cautious about it.
In the same way that anyone who’s seen “The Terminator” would be a bit dubious about handing control of nukes, power generation etc completely over to A.I control.
You don’t have to be a tin foil hat wearer to see the potential pitfalls and be wary of them.
there was a tv show a few years back called ‘Years and Years’ where one character gets lots of implanted technology and like a lot of folks, I thought it was pretty nice what could be done but as the show progresses the dark side rears up about ownership, maintenance, usage and permanent changes to a person from such technology. I still think it’s cool but, at least for now, I’m happy with a few cards in my wallet and passwords in my head.
I remember that. Was a pretty good show. Felt it ran out of steam a little bit though – end wasn’t great.
It brought up lots of potential pitfalls alright.
I always like this bit in it too. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbDFaW1ztww
so many shows do that, great premise, wonderful character treatment, plot starts strong and then it just ends. I’m watching Star Trek Discovery at the moment, got most of the way through the most recent seasons and just gave up and stated season 1 again. Proper stakes, loss, gain and development.
Grand speech from herself, uncomfortable but real, personal responsibility as a tiny but not insignificant cog. She’s also the lady who runs the flower shop in Hot Fuzz and is in one of the better episodes of ‘Electric Dreams’.
Like it or not, Micko, TV rarely deals with the real downsides of digital dictatorships of the type that will be enforced on us. Boe claims it’s all fine, as if his opinion or the opinion of any individual really matters a damn to the people forcing this on us. This stuff is coming, like it or not & it’s being pushed by Oligarchs, via corrupt governments, institutions & media for the benefit of interests that do not represent those of the general public.
There’s never been any upward pressure to demand any of this crap, ever, just constant downward demands that we submit to the requirements of the Oligarchs & their corrupted minions in positions of political power.
If the last few years haven’t taught people any lessons, it will be necessary for them to learn the hard way & they will learn & it will be a very hard lesson, one that many have already died from, as a pointless, useless, toxic drug was forced into people’s bodies, on utterly incredible grounds. They lied, we died.
Beware geeks bearing gifts.
Many of you commenting here could only stand to benefit from some artificial intelligence being impregnated in your thin skins and thick skulls
That’s a tragically hilarious comment, Mad. You clearly misunderstand the basic concept of AI or at least you pretend to in order to make your forced & moronic insult work.
AI will tell you what to do, Mad, not enhance your own IQ. I’m genuinely not sure if you’re as mad & misguided as your comment indicates.
Track Suit… ;-)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/RFID_tag_in_textile_label.jpg/450px-RFID_tag_in_textile_label.jpg?20190929143633
I’ve got one under my skin.
I’ve got one deeply implanted in me
Now scanning ability’s granted to me
I’ve got one under my skin.
My proximity sensors set off alarms
Any time anybody comes near.
My firmware updates do the same thing
They repeat and repeat in my ear….
LOL
Anyone with a functioning brain & intact critical faculties will see this idea, along with the rest of the futuristic fascism that acompanies it, as a burgeoning nightmare of totalitarianism. The gradual reduction of the role democracy plays in how we are ruled seems to have passed many by but that’s unsurprising, given that the majority of people don’t even vote.
We are now ruled from Brussels, a place most Irish people will never even visit, by unelected bureaucrats & their panels of “experts”, who inevitably come from commercial backgrounds & often return there, when their mission is accomplished but most people don’t mind, they’d prefer comfort to freedom, as freedom of consumer choice is the only freedom they want.
As Captain Beefheart once said “3 out of every 5 people are cabbages, the other 2 are hamburgers”.
I suppose, the big blind spot in this scenario is that many people still believe in the idea of benevolent dictatorship, although they might baulk at the suggestion. Unfortunately, the elites who run The West are deeply racist towards their own citizens & have in place a long-term plan to annihilate them, through various means. The European is a right handful for any ruler, educated, aware & acclimatized to being treated as a citizen, of being the one who’s welfare is the central focus of the political system, they must be got rid of, they will be got rid of &, I suppose, as they sit on their increasingly obese posteriors, watching the gogglebox & seeing the picture it presents as representing reality, they deserve the demise that awaits them.
Once upon a time, Europeans were one third of the world’s population, now we’re barely one eight & shrinking rapidly, so it’s clearly working.