It’s not a hand that was slightly injured somewhere. It’s a hand after the implantation of a microchip half the size of a toothpick, via a procedure that takes less than a minute. The microchip, which communicates wirelessly with other devices (smartphones, PCs, etc.) located a few meters away, “records and transmits” health data…
More than a thousand Swedes have already had the implant, and their number is increasing.
You will probably recoil, but you’d better think it through. There is a particularly realistic approach summed up in the word “hold on!”. At the objection, for instance, that with such implants “personal data” could be torn to shreds, Markus Bylund, a Swedish IT-strategy specialist, answers: Are you fretting over trifles like implanting microchips? At the same time an unlimited amount of personal data is being volunteered and is circulating en masse through telecommunications and message exchanges. If there is a threat to democratic societies, it is not in the implants.
Say he’s wrong… (Do you say it?)