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<span style="font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;line-height:110%">OPLIN 4Cast #552: Ready to get microchipped? It's here</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:italic;font-family:arial">July 26th, 2017</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><img align="left" class="m_2552888884857640346alignleft m_2552888884857640346size-full m_2552888884857640346wp-image-6101" src="http://4cast.oplin.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Fotolia_142985504_XS.jpg" alt="chip in arm" width="130" height="94" style="padding-right:14px;padding-top:4px;padding-bottom:4px"> When you think about wearables, you likely picture things like fitness trackers, <a href="https://atap.google.com/jacquard/" target="_blank">smart jackets</a> or even Snap's new <a href="https://www.spectacles.com/?utm_campaign=search&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=text&gclid=CjwKCAjwtdbLBRALEiwAm8pA5cMW45Ome0tc1Lgcobn57VzxjLB-WeLw3AAuY4N0g4RpdOrmcOaIGBoCOBEQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">Spectacles</a>. Get ready to expand your thinking...and possibly be creeped out. It might not be a big deal to microchip a pet, but now microchipping people is a thing.</p><p style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><br></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microchip-employees-20170403-story.html" target="_blank">Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies</a> [Los Angeles Times] "What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and start-up members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand."</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/company-offers-free-totally-not-creepy-microchip-impla-1797190619" target="_blank">Company Offers Free, Totally Not Creepy Microchip Implants to Employees </a>[Gizmodo] "Security is a major concern both because it presents new opportunities for hackers to steal data, and for companies to snoop on their employees. "</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/04/03/bosses-are-already-tracking-employees-with-microchip-implants/" target="_blank">Bosses are already tracking employees with microchip implants</a> [New York Post] "The workers volunteered to have the microchip, which is about as big as a grain of rice, implanted for free. Patrick Mesterton, co-founder and chief executive of Epicenter, an innovation and technology company, told the Australian Broadcasting Company that the microchips inserted into employees’ hands would simplify life."</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/us-tech-company-microchip-employees-first-three-square-market-wisconsin-a7856971.html" target="_blank">US tech company becomes first to microchip employees</a> [The Independent] "They will be implanted underneath the skin between the thumb and forefinger, and will use so-called near-field communications – or NFC – which is the same technology used in contactless credit cards and mobile payments."</li>
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<p style="text-align:left;font-size:20px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><small><strong><em>From the <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org" target="_blank">Ohio Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<ul> <li><a href="http://proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=122975340&site=ehost-live" target="_blank">One Step Closer to Robots Taking Over: Employers are experimenting with microchips implanted in employees</a>. (<i>Business NH Magazine</i>, <i>34</i>(5), 33.)</li> <li><a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=APc5762357ed0c48108fd833b0a5b8a315&site=pov-live" target="_blank">Cyborgs at work: employees getting implanted with microchips</a> (Available from: Points of View Reference Center, Ipswich, MA. Accessed July 24, 2017.)</li> <li><a href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=B92W2597397015&site=pov-live" target="_blank">Swedish company implants microchips in employees</a> (<i>UPI Top News</i>. Apr. 4, 2017.)</li>
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