Mark Morford: Microchip implant is here. Free with every vente latte!

[G_j]

Big Brother Under Your Skin
The future is now. The microchip implant for humans is here. Free with every vente latte!

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Wednesday, October 20, 2004


I shall walk toward my car completely naked and keyless and laughing maniacally and I shall wave my arm over a tiny scanner and the doors will open and the engine will start and the stereo will begin to pump out "Highway to Hell" at a nice respectable skull-thumping volume.
And, lo, it shall be Good.


I shall stroll up to any ATM sans wallet and sans ATM card and I shall hold my arm over the screen and immediately withdraw four hundred dollars and then turn around to the big shiny vending machine and wave my arm again and get myself a nice bag of toxic neon-orange Doritos and a Diet Mountain Dew so I can poison my body in the American tradition without inserting a single piece of needless pocket change.

It is all possible. It is all just on the cusp. All we must do is welcome the sinister intimations and the positively draconian implications and say a big warm slightly terrified hello to the new, FDA-approved implantable microchip, coming soon to a hospital and a Starbucks and a bleak government agency and a human dermal layer near you. Very, very near you.


Have you seen it? Did you check out the pictures? Microchips the size of a grain of rice, programmed with all manner of data and inserted just under your skin and it's all completely legal and government approved and it's happening right now. I mean, who knew microchipping your pet and implanting livestock would lead to this? Oh right -- everyone, that's who.

..more..

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/10/20/notes102004.DTL&nl=fix

[Lilli]

1. I'll become a hermit and live in the mountains if

it becomes impossible to function in society without one.

[Mr E McSquare]

2. Better start heading for the mountains then Lilli

And by the way...Stay off of mine!

[LeftHander]

3. Implant goes next to carotid artery....

Just like Snake Pliskin....