Implanted Microchips Common As Cellphones Within A Decade

Prison Planet | April 15 2005

THE AGE SNIP: Forget mobile phones as the hottest new media technology
- for anyone under 30, handsets as we know them will be gone in 20
years. The world's tech-savvy youngsters will be using microchip
implants to communicate and transact.

Last April, Barcelona's Baja Beach Club began microchipping its VIP
nightclub members, to let them into exclusive areas and clock up
drinks and food via a chip implant in the arm produced by VeriChip
Corporation. Within a decade, Mr Grulke (pictured) says, microchips
will be common. Already two scientists at Britain's Warwick University
have chips embedded under their skin that let them send emails just by
thinking.

"Twenty years from now, we (older generations) will still hate it, but
kids will never know a world without it."

The arrival of the hip, young microchippers is only the start of
radical industry-changing trends that Mr Grulke says big companies are
struggling to address because of their reluctance for "radical
innovation".

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2005/150405commonascellphones.htm

Original article at "The Age" (requires registration)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/
Facing-the-future-with-a-chip-in-the-shoulder/2005/04/13/1113251680405.html

Cheers, Steve..

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