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Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants.
"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.
The company designs software for break room markets that are commonly found in office complexes.
Just as people are able to purchase items at the market using phones, Westby wants to do the sam[sic] thing using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.
"We'll come up, scan the item," he explained, while showing how the process will work at an actual break room market kiosk. "We'll hit pay with a credit card, and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for my product."
If the company was really cool they would do it by tattooing the sum of the squares of the first seven primes (2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²) over the employees' left ear.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 24 2017, @10:10PM (6 children)
If it became mandatory, I'd go on welfare.
If it became mandatory for welfare, I'd live in the woods with my mealworms.
No. Way!
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(Score: 2) by gznork26 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:30AM (4 children)
...until you need it to collect your welfare.
Khipu were Turing complete.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:01AM (3 children)
You should've read the second line of the GP's comment before commenting.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:22AM (2 children)
First you don't read TFA before commenting
Then you don't read TFsummary before commenting
Then you don't read TFtitle before commenting
Then you don't read the comments before commenting
Then you ditch the internet and comment directly unto the collective mind
Then you comment directly unto God
Then God smites you.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @03:06PM (1 child)
When there's a collective mind, there's no longer any "you" who could comment unto it.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:48PM
If only YOU could be used for plural too... :D
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(Score: 1) by tftp on Tuesday July 25 2017, @12:51AM
Easy. They make it mandatory to receive healthcare. Within several years the problem will be solved! The holdouts are usually older people who need healthcare, or they die.