Having been brought up as a Baptist, I was constantly exposed to what I used to perceive as the nonsensical notion that we would one day all receive some sort of bodily id mark that would leave us unable to buy or sell or whatever. So I find this stuff very interesting, to say the least. Anybody got any comment on this?
The world is currently preparing for the launching of chip-based currency. TIME magazine, on April 27, 1998, quotes Henry Mundt, e.v.p. for global access at Mastercard:
"What we really see happening in the future is consumers being able to design their cards to meet individual needs."
Smart cards, however will not remain the last form money will take. As TIME explains:
"Your daughter can store the money any way she wants -- on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin."
Report Says Implantable Chips for Humans on Horizon
By Fred Jackson
December 21, 2001
(AgapePress) - A Florida company says it expects federal approval within six months to start selling microchips designed to be implanted into human beings.
The move by Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach is being heralded as opening the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening. It comes on the heels of a series of reports in recent days about the growing push for national and even universal identification cards. For end-time prophecy watchers, it is further evidence that technology advances are coming to the forefront that allow for the marking system talked about in the Book of Revelation.
According to the L.A. Times, officials with Applied Digital say that although implantable chips have been denounced by those who object on religious and other grounds, that resistance has weakened in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. As Keith Bolton, the company�s chief technology officer, puts it, "When people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they�re open to new approaches."
The Times article quotes an official of another high-tech company who calls the chip implant "a glorified bar code" -- and he says a lot of people are going to want it.
� 2001
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:16�18)
Re: Universal IDs, Big Brother and the End of Days
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Having been brought up as a Baptist, I was constantly exposed to what I used to perceive as the nonsensical notion that we would one day all receive some sort of bodily id mark that would leave us unable to buy or sell or whatever. So I find this stuff very interesting, to say the least. Anybody got any comment on this?
The world is currently preparing for the launching of chip-based currency. TIME magazine, on April 27, 1998, quotes Henry Mundt, e.v.p. for global access at Mastercard:
"What we really see happening in the future is consumers being able to design their cards to meet individual needs."
Smart cards, however will not remain the last form money will take. As TIME explains:
"Your daughter can store the money any way she wants -- on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin."
Report Says Implantable Chips for Humans on Horizon
By Fred Jackson
December 21, 2001
(AgapePress) - A Florida company says it expects federal approval within six months to start selling microchips designed to be implanted into human beings.
The move by Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach is being heralded as opening the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening. It comes on the heels of a series of reports in recent days about the growing push for national and even universal identification cards. For end-time prophecy watchers, it is further evidence that technology advances are coming to the forefront that allow for the marking system talked about in the Book of Revelation.
According to the L.A. Times, officials with Applied Digital say that although implantable chips have been denounced by those who object on religious and other grounds, that resistance has weakened in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. As Keith Bolton, the company�s chief technology officer, puts it, "When people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they�re open to new approaches."
The Times article quotes an official of another high-tech company who calls the chip implant "a glorified bar code" -- and he says a lot of people are going to want it.
� 2001
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:16�18)
The world is currently preparing for the launching of chip-based currency. TIME magazine, on April 27, 1998, quotes Henry Mundt, e.v.p. for global access at Mastercard:
"What we really see happening in the future is consumers being able to design their cards to meet individual needs."
Smart cards, however will not remain the last form money will take. As TIME explains:
"Your daughter can store the money any way she wants -- on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin."
Report Says Implantable Chips for Humans on Horizon
By Fred Jackson
December 21, 2001
(AgapePress) - A Florida company says it expects federal approval within six months to start selling microchips designed to be implanted into human beings.
The move by Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach is being heralded as opening the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening. It comes on the heels of a series of reports in recent days about the growing push for national and even universal identification cards. For end-time prophecy watchers, it is further evidence that technology advances are coming to the forefront that allow for the marking system talked about in the Book of Revelation.
According to the L.A. Times, officials with Applied Digital say that although implantable chips have been denounced by those who object on religious and other grounds, that resistance has weakened in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks. As Keith Bolton, the company�s chief technology officer, puts it, "When people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they�re open to new approaches."
The Times article quotes an official of another high-tech company who calls the chip implant "a glorified bar code" -- and he says a lot of people are going to want it.
� 2001
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:16�18)
