'Mark Of The Beast' Style Microchips Coming To The Workplace

You knew this day was coming.

Well, ���this day��� isn���t here quite yet, but it���s just a matter of time���and, probably, very little time.

What are we talking about? People implanted with microchips, and it being no big deal.

According to an article over at CNBC.com , a company called Biohax is knee-deep in the effort to make available the ability (���privilege���? ���requirement���? You pick the word) for humans to be injected with a tiny microchip that would make them even more efficient when it comes to completing simple, everyday tasks.

Jowan Osterlund, Biohax founder, says the microchips could be programmed in such a way that they could effectively communicate with an array of devices, including coffee makers and electronic door locks. The point of having such capability would be to allow any of a variety of devices to be activated and otherwise controlled by a simple wave of one���s hand.

���I���m turning the internet of things into the internet of us, says Osterlund.

Except, considering the wide-ranging issues associated with the so-called ���internet of things,��� turning that into the ���internet of us��� may not be such a hot idea.

As the CNBC article points out, privacy concerns would abound should humans find themselves implanted with microchips, and particularly if it is something that begins to happen in great numbers. Hacking of the microchips would have the potential of revealing all kinds of information ��� the mind reels just considering it.

No doubt, however, large numbers of people will be convinced that the ���benefits��� far outsize whatever risks there are, and will go along with it.

Will you be one of them?

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large