Is there a microchip implant in your future?

Microchip implants like the ones pet owners use to track their dogs and cats could become commonplace in humans in the next decade. Experts are divided on whether they’re appropriate for people, but the implants could offer several advantages. For soldiers and journalists in war zones, an implant could be the difference between life and death. A tracker could also help law enforcement quickly locate a kidnapped child…

Microchipping humans like we do pets and farmers do livestock? Oh, yeah, that’s going to go over well. Just imagine the places we can’t go if the government knows where we are. The above article talks of support for microchipping children, Alzheimer’s patients, type II diabetics as a glucose measurement tool, and other camel’s nose under the corner of the tent uses for the little radio transmitters. If limited to uses like chipping felons and sex abusers…a supporting argument can be entertained, but it flirts with too much Big Brother.

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