How did you pay for your coffee this morning? Did you use a debit/credit card? Or maybe you used Apple or Google Pay? But how about a microchip? Welcome to the microchip: Is this our future?
So in Wisconsin, they have a tech company Three Square Market. They specialize in break rooms, also in micro technology. So now they’re offering an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip to their employees. They can use the chips to scan their way into the building. They can also use it to pay for food in the building. Through a needle, they stick the chip between your thumb and finger in your right hand.
The chip is about the size of a grain of rice. Furthermore, the chip is strictly optional. However, over 50 Three Square Market employees agreed to take this chip. They’re doing this to promote RFID technology. So welcome to the microchip. They want to do plenty with this chip. In addition to buying and opening doors, they want to use copy machines, log in computers, unlock your smartphones, store medical records, and buy and sell everywhere. And we don’t even know the half of it. They claim this RFID chip won’t follow you around. So they say.
But eventually, it will. There is already technology where you can track your dog and your kids. In Sweden, a whole office is controlled by the microchip. Is that what this microchip is leading to? Fifty may take it now, but most Americans I talked to want nothing to do with it. People in this Boston computer service shop don’t like it, so don’t bring this nonsense around here. I saw a poll on Facebook of around 2,000 people. Of those, 200 people would take the chip. Then another 500 wouldn’t take it, but wouldn’t quit that job, either. And then, the other 1300 would quit right away! I posted a news story on my FB page. The results ranged from, “Oh, goodness no!” to “What the (explative)?”. Nobody seemed excited about this microchip. So would you take it?