{"id":493,"date":"2003-11-28T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2018-08-09T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:10:27","slug":"493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/28\/493\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark of the Beast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Digital has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,61357,00.html?tw=wn_polihead_2\" target=\"new\">announced a new service to allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skins<\/a>.   Shidoshi, you might ask, should I worry about the implications of this for my own personal paranoia?<\/p>\n<p>No, student, this is a false alarm.  Applied Digital is a corporation in its last throes of death, but it yet retains a marketing department or a piece of software that generates press releases on a regular basis.  Because the company features a chip that goes under the skin, its press releases receive a lot of play in the trades when they want to shock or titilate the public.<\/p>\n<p>Implanting payment methods or identification will never become prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>You should worry, instead, about the reasons why the powers that want to be <i>won&#8217;t need you to undergo elective surgery<\/i> to track you.<\/p>\n<p>Meditate on&#8217;t, child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Digital has announced a new service to allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skins. Shidoshi, you might ask, should I worry about the implications of this for my own personal paranoia? No, student, this is a false alarm. Applied Digital is a corporation in its last throes of death, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22037,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/22037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}