by NTEB News Desk |
Emilott Lantz, 25, from Umeå in northern Sweden got a microchip inserted into her hand last week
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16,17
She
became a guinea pig during Sime 2014 in Stockholm – a conference about
digitalism, the internet, and the future. In line with the goals of the event,
participants were offered to get a
microchip fitted for free – an opportunity Lantz jumped at.
"This has very much been an underground phenomenon up
until now, but there are perhaps a 100 people with the chip in
Sweden," says Hannes Sjöblad from the Swedish biohackers group
BioNyfiken.
In the last month alone 50 people from the group
underwent the procedure.
The
technology has previously been used for key tags or chips in our pets’ necks to
let them through cat flaps. What is
relatively new is inserting the chip in human hands.
The idea is that instead of carrying keys or remembering pins or passwords for our phones or doors, people fitted with microchips can use them to unlock rooms or lockers, by placing their hand against a machine that reads the information stored in the chip.
It was the appeal of minimizing the number of keys she
needed to carry around that was the deciding factor for
Lantz.
But
her decision to go through with the procedure has brought mixed reactions from
her friends and family,
some saying she’s been foolish while others argue it’s a cool idea. “The
technology isn’t new but the subject becomes sensitive just because it’s in the
human body,” she says.
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