Like the promise of the safer world with the airports controls
Watching our new dog have his identity chip implanted recently made me wonder why we humans don’t have the same process available.
A tiny little needle is used to insert the “chip” and the dog barely noticed. I’ve seen bigger needles used for human injections. So the actual implanting wouldn’t be a problem.
Human chips could be constructed to contain different kinds of information, which could only be “read” by those entities with a need to know.
One would obviously contain your identity — name, address, phone number and perhaps next of kin with a contact number for general identification, especially if you were unable to provide that information yourself. You would use it when you voted, or any other occasion that required identification.
You might have one, or a separate portion of one that contained any vital medical information. You know, the kind they repeatedly want you to fill out on the forms you get at the doctor’s office. Only your medical facility or an emergency service could access that information. When your medication changes, your doctor could phone in the change to the responsible chip provider and it would be electronically added.
Another chip, or portion of one, would contain your bank identification. You could just wave it at the drive up window instead of having to fish out a card; lean way out the window and poke buttons to say you wanted English or Spanish. It would access your account the way your pin number does now.
You and your children would be identifiable without having to carry cards and whatnot of various kinds, necessitating hauling your wallet out in awkward places like your rear pocket — the one you are sitting on in the car.
For those in the military in combat, it might ease identification.
If you are a traveler and need identification, your chip would have whatever immigration needed and you could just run your arm under a “reader” and continue on your way.
If the implanted “seed” carried a GPS capability, it would be useful for keeping track of children, the elderly or the mentally challenged who might wander away, or worse, be taken.
This chip could be altered when the “child” reached the age of 18 or 21, unless the holder agreed to leave it in.
Not sure an adult child would feel a need for the police to know their every move, or their parents.
Later, as in the incidence of the elderly or demented, the chip could be turned on again.
Think of the savings in time, paper and hassle. Not to mention the unlikely event of having this information stolen.
The only way that might happen is too grisly to think about.
A thief could hardly expect to be served by carrying a severed arm around, or a chip without the arm it belonged to.
The wave of a wand tells the vet or humane society that our dog is Teddy and where he belongs and how to contact us — simple, painless, technology that works.
How come a dog’s life is easier than ours?
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