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The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee's hand. [...]
What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
[...] "People ask me; 'Are you chipped?' and I say; 'Yes, why not,'" said Fredric Kaijser, the 47-year-old chief experience officer at Epicenter. "And they all get excited about privacy issues and what that means and so forth. And for me it's just a matter of I like to try new things and just see it as more of an enabler and what that would bring into the future."
The implants have become so popular that Epicenter workers stage monthly events where attendees have the option of being "chipped" for free.
Full article here:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/start-up-epicenter-implants-employees-with-microchips.html
AC: There are so many things wrong with both the article and with those people I wouldn't know where to start.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @01:58AM (3 children)
I read the article, did you? They're implanting things into people's hands. There's no mention of what happens when it's time to remove the implant. Reasons to remove it include infections, irritation, employee separation, making room for other implants, replacement of the implant when it's cloned, or restoring the appearance and function of the hand.
self-described "body hacker"
Meaning, not a surgeon. Is this guy going to rip it out when an employee leaves the company, or will that fall to a real doctor? If it's a doctor, the public may end up getting the bill for the surgery. The company makes a little more profit because employees aren't sharing time-cards, and everyone else pays for it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:27AM (2 children)
Keep on believing that this is caused by socialized medicine.
I've recently decided to be a misanthrope. I don't think this species can or should survive.
Capitalist medicine is the best way to make a country or people sick and weak, so I applaud your efforts to help advance the cause.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:32AM (1 child)
If there is one thing positive I can say about capitalist medicine... the leaders are strong and healthy.
The workers are weak and sickly.
The whole nation can be seen like a Ferrari with beautiful upholstery and a really soddish engine.
Its leaders soon become quite vulnerable, just as a glutton whose muscles have long since gone. The head may bark orders, the pen may sign papers, but there isn't nothing much left backing up those orders.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 04 2017, @03:46PM
Kind of like one European leader that issued orders for troops that no longer existed inside a concrete room beneath the surface. Haven't heard of him for a long time so he probably went of to a new career in silence ;-)