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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 04 2017, @07:04PM (#488767)

    there's a lot of idiots we have to deal with in the future..

    I'll raise you the entirety of human civilisation.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:36AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:36AM (#488973) Journal

    I know..

    But there's one way to partially minimize the problem. Putting up barriers that requires people to use their brains another one is to make things boring for the causal onlooker.

    Just like people evaluated the green VT-100 but didn't THINK about where it connected or could do nor development opportunities.