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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 VLM on Tuesday April 04 2017, @12:44PM
What could pass for a dystopian vision
"could"? I mean, what do you need to get an actual dystopia without weasel words, Zyklon B showers or free one way helicopter rides? I don't necessarily see that stuff as inherently bad its all situational relativistic ethics. But I know what most blue pilled normies think and its funny to see this wrapped with weasel words. I'm not really sure and I don't want to be controversial or anything but maybe its possible the guys in white sheets at the Klan ralley "could pass for racist". Ironically everyone at a Klan meeting is undercover cop at one of the zillions of cops we have, journalists undercover, etc, so there really aren't any racists at a Klan meeting, at least not since the 60s or so, which is kinda funny. Now a /pol/ meetup IRL or a standard pool party, that's another topic... But regardless of our individual political views and feels toward one another I think we can all come together in bipartisan multilateral statement that this is one hell of a weasel word article.
What I want to know is over my life (which is hardly over...) I've interacted with perhaps 200, 300, 400 big organizations that could theoretically want to chip me. There's that independent gym I worked out at in the late 90s. My kids 1st day care thats now out of business in the very early 00s. And their second day care. I've had a couple employers. Thats just places that actually gave me cards or fobs. Over decades I've probably acquired many hundreds of loyalty cards, ID cards, all of which "must be implanted" Eventually my hand is going to get heavy. And I'm sure we're eventually going to discover they cause cancer and arthritis and probably erectile dysfunction (I mean, hell, why not, if I'm going to start a rumor may as well be a good one). I mean, aren't cigarettes and HFCS healthy? Oh and vaccines too. I mean the government and big business would never lie... would they? I'm sure its never happened.
Something to think about is cheap companies will only issue you a 25 cent card but I've played with RFID arduino shields and mifare disk thingies and it seems very strange to provide the normies with two options, the cheapest easily broken large CC sized card or the creepy as hell implant. I know from having purchased and played with them there are numerous RFID products that are pill sized and fit on a keyring or smaller. The alternative to getting hundreds of implants over the course of your life is something like a "charm bracelet" Actually emulating a couple hundred RFID inside your smart-watch is the likely outcome.
To some extent these kind of stories are a sort of black comedy. Like if we get idiot normies to do this today, ha ha ha hey beavis watch me butthead convince the same idiots (well, the females ones anyway) to get RFID IUDs inserted. I mean what could possibly go wrong with inserting 50 companies IUDs into the same chick at the same time, and it would be so convenient to rub crotch on door to unlock it or to pay for coffee (actually, this works for booze at the bar, so maybe bad example) or to provide a cop with your identification documents.