Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
A Swedish Start-Up has Started Implanting Microchips into its Employees | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 47 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Tuesday April 04 2017, @12:14PM (1 child)

    by fritsd (4586) on Tuesday April 04 2017, @12:14PM (#488602) Journal

    specifically, where the h's go in front of the occasional omicron.

    If the thingy curves to the right it's a spiritus asper, ὁ = Ho, Wiki calls it "rough breathing" [wikipedia.org] for some reason.

    If there is no accent necessary they put a very similar looking thingy that curves to the left on it to add confusion: spiritus lenis, ὄνομα = onoma (name), smooth breathing [wikipedia.org], which means: it's jus t a normal omicron, but we put a special accent on top of it, so that you can see that it's not the H special accent.

    It's been so long ago that I had Greek in school that I can kind of still figure it out but with great difficulty :-)
    We have to ask Aristarchus for the differences between Koinè, Attic, Doric, Ionian, Homeric and Pindarussian, because my mind is a blank.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @06:18PM (#488750)

    Wiki calls it "rough breathing" for some reason.

    "Some reason" being the literal translation: "spiritus" = breath, "asper" = sharp/ragged, and "lenis" = gentle/smooth.