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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: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday April 04 2017, @05:12AM (1 child)
"Perhaps standing in front of a big microwave radar..."
You would certainly start to feel very warm inside.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Tuesday April 04 2017, @08:18AM
Was reminded of the old AN/SPG-49 missile guidance radars on the Talos-equipped cruisers I rode. Sea gulls flying into the beam would simply "pop" and drop.