Loony Fundie Nonsense for the Masses
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United States: Applied Digital Solutions are marketing the VeriChip as the world's only implantable ID technology, claiming they could one day replace credit cards. They are also receiving condemnation from some fundamentalist Christians who believe that this is the fabled 'mark of the beast' of biblical lore.
When Cash Is Only Skin Deep - Wired News, 25th November 2003 (via Opinions of the Wolf: News).
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Tracked on November 28, 2003 6:04 AM
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November 27, 2003 1:28 PM
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You got to admit its amusing that libertarians (like me) and fundies are on the same side on this one.
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November 27, 2003 1:53 PM
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And old-fashioned liberals like me. I'm sure if I checked, those members of the Scottish Socialist Science Fiction Vanguard Party who really are socialists (i.e Ken Macleod) would have similar feelings about it too.
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December 7, 2003 11:53 PM
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its cool but not 4 da week!
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March 29, 2004 5:16 AM
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Snopes has a long winded explanation of why RFID is not the mark of the beast. In short, they point out that the biochip makers and the smartcard makers are two entirely different entities who are dabbling in completely separate fields.
The potential is there to go completely silly with this technology, but it is nowhere near the stage the loony fundie conspiracy wingnuts seem to think it is.
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November 27, 2003 12:46 PM | Reply
Well it is rather scary and, unlike most things they claim to be the Mark of the Beast, it does match the mythology fairly closely.