The Peak (Singapore)

EMBEDDED I. D.

ThePeak team evaluate the advantages of implanting a microchip under the skin.

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The Peak team evaluate the advantages of implanting a microchip under the skin.

It will eliminate the need to remember my 10 zillionth password. Its tracking capabiliti­es (if privacy- concern fears are to be believed) might prove useful decades on in helping my family to locate aged me when she absently wanders into random neighbourh­oods to feed cats. –LK

YES

As someone with a faint set of fingerprin­ts, I cannot unlock my iPhone with my thumb or clear immigratio­n without being detained. If microchips are the new standard of identifica­tion, I’d gladly slip it under my skin. – DK

I’LL PROBABLY JOIN CAMP SWEDEN ON THIS ONE. CONTRARY TO WHAT YEARS OF CONSUMING HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTE­RS MIGHT HAVE LED ME TO BELIEVE, I’M PROBABLY NOT THE ENEMY- OF-THE- STATE TYPE. NOW, IF I EVER PLAN TO BE, THE CHIP WILL BE THE FIRST THING TO GO. –XJ

NO

ANYBODY WITH THE RIGHT DEVICE CAN HACK OR TRACK ME, AND MISUSE MY PERSONAL DATA. WHO KNOWS HOW THE GEOPOLITIC­AL CLIMATE MIGHT EVOLVE ( OR DEVOLVE), AND IF WE MIGHT NEED TO GO OFF- GRID ONE DAY? SMART GADGETS WORK JUST FINE. –AW Not if there is no off- switch. –JC

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