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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: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:22AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:22AM (#488560) Journal

    Ah, some one from the Westernmost reaches! Yes, of course it was Greek. But not all Greek is Greek, just as not all English is Anglish, as your very dubious example shows. For example, what, precisely, is a "dumb ass"? It seems to me that all asses are dumb, if you are referring to the species Equus africanus asinus, and if you are not, I have no idea to what you are referring.

    Second: "first language is retard"? I am not familiar with any such language. Perhaps you could enlighten us, since you seem to be extremely proficient in the arts of the extremely stupid and uneducated. Surely you know that "tardus" is just Latin for "the late one". I, for one, fail to see how this is a bad thing! I have been alive for over 2400 years, and I have seem many cases where people did not show their true potential until well into their later years. But never was "retard" a language. Usually they had their own, rather idiosyncratic, language, possibly shared only with a twin. But that is neither here nor there. The point, my Soft and Squishy AC, it that you, in fact, are the idiot here. You do not read Greek, and you cannot tell the difference between dialects of the language, so you accuse me of ignorance? Oh, dear, my dear AC, you are in well over your head. So far, in fact, that your head may actually right now, but up your own ass, and here I am not referring to Equus africanus asinus.

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