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And for some people, that day is already here. In fact, at some technology conferences people actually line up to get chipped...Ultimately, implanted microchips offer a way to make your physical body machine-readable. Currently, there is no single standard of communicating with the machines that underpin society - from building access panels to ATMs - but an endless diversity of identification systems: magnetic strips, passwords, PIN numbers, security questions, and dongles. All of these are attempts to bridge the divide between your digital and physical identity, and if you forget or lose them, you are suddenly cut off from your bank account, your gym, your ride home, your proof of ID, and more. An implanted chip, by contrast, could act as our universal identity token for navigating the machine-regulated world.
How creepy is that?This month at the Transhuman Visions conference in San Francisco, Graafstra set up an "implantation station" offering attendees the chance to be chipped at $50 a time. Using a large needle designed for microchipping pets, Graafstra injected a glass-coated RFID tag the size of a rice grain into each volunteer. By the end of the day Graafstra had created 15 new cyborgs.
Comment: The US supported the old dictator and after a brutal crackdown supported the transition to another US-puppet dictator, while the old dictator got immunity from prosecution.
No Mrs. Nuland handing out cookies to the protesters and egging them on. No McCain supporting the peoples wish for democracy and calling for an overthrow of the old regime. No EU and US delegation holding meetings with the opposition parties. In this case the US have actively participated in the suppression of the people of Yemen by calling them Al-Qaeda allies and sending drones to bomb them into silence.
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