Chip In

The reporter shows off his chip.                                                     screen shot

Well, it's finally happened. An office block ~ this one is in Sweden ~ is placing a chip under tenant companies' employees' skin. The tiny chip goes on the hand and allows the chipee to, for example, open a door by touching its lock or use the copier without having to enter an ID number. In the near future, apparently, they'll also be able to pay for a meal at the cafeteria by way of the chip. (Take that, Apple Pay!) The interesting angle to all this is the ostensible motive behind it all. "We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped ~ the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip," says Hannes Sjoblad, "chief disruption officer" at the Swedish bio-hacking group that organized the process (story, video): http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477