<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sid Shniad</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shniad@gmail.com" target="_blank">shniad@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:05 PM<br>Subject: Swedish company implanting workers with microchips<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><b> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/swedish-company-offers-employees-implantable-chips-article-1.2104851" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/swedish-company-offers-employees-implantable-chips-article-1.2104851</a><br><br>New York Daily News February 5, 2015<br><font size="4"><br>Swedish company implanting workers with microchips</font><br><br>The mini-devices can open doors, unlock the photocopier and share contact details. It's the way of the future, experts say.<br><br>By Meredith Engel </b><br></div><div><br>Work is really getting under some workers’ skin.<br><br>At the Epicenter complex in Stockholm, Sweden, office drones are becoming droids by inserting dog-style microchips to unlock doors, operate photo copiers or share contact info.<br><br>It’s the latest example of a trend that is also emerging in the medical profession.<br><br>"We call it augmented humanity," said tech trends expert Faith Popcorn, author of “Dictionary of the Future.” “We foresee a future in which everyone will have an implanted chip that will benefit our personal lives as well.”<br><br>Designed by the Swedish Biohacking Group, the radio-wave-emitting chip is the size of a grain of rice and similar to transmitters implanted into pets.<br><br>TODAYNBC reporter Keir Simmons has a microchip implanted under his skin.<br><br>Epicenter's 700 tenants can get the implant, done by a professional tattoo artist wielding a thick needle. A Stockholm tattoo parlor has even hosted chip-insertion parties for employees.<br><br>Swedish entrepreneur Hannes Sjoblad, who started the “biohacking” industry in his homeland, thinks it's only a matter of time before people use chips to ride public transportation, pay for groceries and track fitness.<br><br>Popcorn thinks it will go even further.<br><br>“You'll be able to download Mandarin into your embedded chip before your business meeting in Shanghai,” she said.<br><br>But when he tried to open a door with his bionic hand, the chip didn’t work.<br><br>There are still some bugs in this new technology.<br><br>When the “Today” show tested the chip in Sweden on Thursday, reporter Keir Simmons’ chip didn’t work.<br><br>"Go back to your flying car,” host Matt Lauer teased him.<br><br>His joke might be apt. Some experts think subdermal implants will only ramp up our addiction to technology.<br><br>"We've already gotten too overwhelmed with technology and if it's now a part of you, that's going to make you more obsessed with it," said Dr. Larry Rosen, a technology expert at California State University Dominguez Hills.<br><br><a href="mailto:mengel@nydailynews.com" target="_blank">mengel@nydailynews.com</a><br><br></div></div>
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