Not Your Maker's Mark

by baldilocks

I like how this story reads — as if we haven’t read it before.

You walk into a gro­cery store and pick up eggs. No smart­phone? No prob­lem. You swipe your hand across a reader, and the amount is deducted from your bank account.

If that sounds far-​fetched, you obvi­ously haven’t been to Swe­den recently, where thou­sands of peo­ple have report­edly had chips implanted in their bodies.

A com­pany called Bio­hax has already “installed” around 4,000 chips in cus­tomers, inserted just below the thumb. They can use the implant to open secure doors, pay for tick­ets, and share emer­gency infor­ma­tion with med­ical per­son­nel. The chip is about the size of a Tylenol pill, and the pro­ce­dure — which costs $180 — is sim­i­lar to get­ting a tetanus shot.

Other good rea­sons for get­ting the mark … er … chip are listed. And they are really good rea­sons. The logic is sound. And with the uproar — real and ginned up — about voter fraud in 2016 and some on this very day, add vot­ing to the list of mun­dane tasks that can be made sim­pler and “error-​free” by hav­ing every piece of infor­ma­tion about one’s iden­tity inserted into one’s body.

Leav­ing aside the bib­li­cal prophecy about the Mark of the Beast, how alarm­ing is this? One won­ders what will be the out­come of a mal­func­tion­ing chip. How will a person’s body — and mind — react to that?

You know, of course, some day, not very far off, this chip will be manda­tory for every­one, right?

Bring­ing back Bible prophecy into the mix, there will be those who refuse to get the chip for what­ever rea­son. They will be left out of the world economy.

The tile of the piece is “Are You Ready for Chip Implant?” The true ques­tion, how­ever, is: are you ready to do what it takes to sur­vive with­out it?

(Thanks to Ed Driscoll at Instapundit)

Juli­ette Akinyi Ochieng has been blog­ging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here. She pub­lished her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012.

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