Skin deep. (Artifact).Behold be·hold v. be·held , be·hold·ing, be·holds v.tr. 1. a. To perceive by the visual faculty; see: beheld a tiny figure in the distance. b. the VeriChip, a new device the size of a grain of rice. Once implanted im·plant v. im·plant·ed, im·plant·ing, im·plants v.tr. 1. To set in firmly, as into the ground: implant fence posts. 2. in you, it stores personal information and transmits it to a voyeuristic scanner (1) See also antivirus program. (2) An optical device that reads a printed page or transparency and converts it into a graphics image for the computer. The scanner does not recognize or differentiate in any manner the content of the material it is scanning. . Its maker, Applied Digital Solutions, is marketing it to the medical industry, though it has noted other potential applications, including "enhancement of present forms of identification" and "various law enforcement and defense uses." Interviewed y Wired News Wired News is an online technology news website, formerly known as HotWired, that split off from Wired magazine when the magazine was purchased by Condé Nast Publishing in the 1990s. Condé Nast later purchased Wired News on 2006-07-11. , company president Scott Silverman mentions one more target market: "Generation Y people who want to get chipped because they think it's cool." Is this what happens when The X-Files gets cancelled? Voltaire once said--I paraphrase--that if evil alien overlords did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them. If they did exist, though, would it really be necessary to embrace them? |
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