(Micro) Chips With Everything


Back in March 1998, in an article headed `Chips With Everything', I warned that American scientists were planning to insert microchips into people. The ghastly plan was, I said, for us all to have a single microchip stuck under the skin on our hands or arms - instead of having to carry around credit cards, bank cash cards, membership cards and so on.
      The chips would, I wrote, also be used to carry medical information. And travellers wouldn't need to carry passports because their passport information would be carried in the chip under their skin. Quite a few people laughed. Many scoffed. Now the chip is here and the nightmare has become reality. The new under-the-skin microchip implant which fits under the skin in your hand, is electronically powered by body heat, has sensors to measure pulse and blood pressure and has a GPS satellite link so that the people controlling the chip will know exactly where everyone is all of the time. When you buy something you just flick your hand (and chip) across the scanner and the money will be taken from your account. (Of course if you're a robber you just chop off people's hands and you can go anywhere and be anyone.)
      The idea is that we all soon have one of these chips under our skin. They will, of course, be voluntary. But without one you won't be able to travel, get cash out of the bank or get hospital treatment. The manufacturers received a special technology award from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.


Taken from `Rogue Nation' by Vernon Coleman, published by Blue Books and available from the shop on this website.


Copyright Vernon Coleman 2003


Copyright Vernon Coleman 2003