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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 04 2017, @01:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the betcha-can't-implant-just-one dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:20AM (1 child)

    The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips... [emphasis added]

    I went and looked at the company website [epicenterstockholm.com], and they are, apparently, a glorified shared workspace.
    When they say "startup members," I believe they are referring to their customers.

    So they're "chipping" [wikipedia.org] their customers as well as their employees.

    What more could I want for SeK2,500 (~USD $280) per month?

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @02:36AM (#488505)

    What more could I want for SeK2,500 (~USD $280) per month?

    A cardboard VR headset or a suicide pill.