If Microchips For Employees Ever Become An Orwellian Reality Would Amazon Be The Likely First User?

[sandyRoe]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/11/alarm-over-talks-to-implant-uk-employees-with-microchips

[Spicerack]

Hope so, it'll save all those trips to the depot to pick things up.

[spathiphyllum]

:S looks like it

[kvalidir]

Meh stuff that :/

[Togo]

" In the past this meant that someone whose physical abilities were extended beyond normal by mechanisms built into the body. But since then the meaning has changed. By the end of the 21st century there were few human beings to whom that description could not be applied. At the start of the century, prosthetics were just a replacement for body parts and were often inferior, but very soon those replacements were becoming superior to the parts they replaced. By the latter half of the century people were voluntarily substituting eye lenses with versions that gave them eagle vision, computer displays, and access to virtual reality. Others wove electromuscle into their existing muscle, reinforced their bones, wrapped soft robots around their hearts and transfused artificial blood...……" cont. p111. Neal Asher. The Soldier.

It comes Sandy. If not Amazon, then another human resource farmer.

[Togo]

They shall not grow old. ^^

[Theland]

Mark of the beast maybe?

[sandyRoe]

Some might have thought it would be totalitarian states, N Korea or China, that might use these devices on their citizens. Instead it looks like it will be private companies who will try to implement them

[Old_Geezer]

Only to those daft enough to accept it.

Enhancement, and monitoring are different things.

[Togo]

...cont. Advancements in nanotech gave them swarms of doctor machines inside their bodies, while the integration of computer tech and the human brain extended memory, processing and thought. Advancements in biotech then tended to confuse the issue.

[Theland]

Subtlety and the promise of reward for compliance, and the fear of societal exclusion for not, will be enough to pursuade the Great Unwashed to sign up.
Cash is almost gone now, one step more for the chip.

[emmie]

what a truly chilling idea, Orwellian in the extreme

[youngmafbog]

I would have thought current Human rights and privacy laws would put a stop to this.

[fiveleaves]

Never ever accept a microchip in your body. Read the book of Revelation in the Bible and the stuff about the mark of the beast.
This could be a precursor

[sandyRoe]

Isn't it 666 thats the mark of the beast?

[237SJ]

I remember when something like this was mentioned on here a while ago. An American company was trialling the implanting of chips into workers fingers to ease the purchasing of food from vending machines. I seem to remember that some posters thought that it was "progress". Over my dead body. I would strike over that prospect. I doubt it will happen in my lifetime though