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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 24 2017, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-can't-possibly-be-used-for-evil dept.

A Wisconsin company is about to become the first in the U.S. to offer microchip implants to its employees.

Yes, you read that right. Microchip implants.

"It's the next thing that's inevitably going to happen, and we want to be a part of it," Three Square Market Chief Executive Officer Todd Westby said.

The company designs software for break room markets that are commonly found in office complexes.

Just as people are able to purchase items at the market using phones, Westby wants to do the sam[sic] thing using a microchip implanted inside a person's hand.

"We'll come up, scan the item," he explained, while showing how the process will work at an actual break room market kiosk. "We'll hit pay with a credit card, and it's asking to swipe my proximity payment now. I'll hold my hand up, just like my cell phone, and it'll pay for my product."

If the company was really cool they would do it by tattooing the sum of the squares of the first seven primes (2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17²) over the employees' left ear.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Monday July 24 2017, @09:58PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday July 24 2017, @09:58PM (#543896) Journal

    So now they rob you at machete point and take your hand instead of your wallet?

    Why do people keep on doing this stuff. We can't seem to stop ourselves from creating skynet.

     

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @10:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 24 2017, @10:01PM (#543898)

    No see, we'll embed in in their skull. Bet you feel like an idiot now!

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:16AM

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:16AM (#544055) Journal

    My theory is that implants give the elites a sense of more power, or that invading the body (see also tattoos) yields advantages according to some esoterism or to some forced prophecy fulfilling, or that implants are the boogeyman designed to keep attention away from subtler tracking technology.

    None of these possible explanations bodes very well for our future.

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