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911 Provides Green Light for Chip Implants
The following LA Times story is a top candidate for the
ancient prophecy comes to life on the five-o-clock news
of the decade award
featured at index:
human microchip implants already here and in use
Title Information:
THE NATION
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Chip ID That's Only Skin-Deep - Biotech Firm plans to sell implantable devices that can
store a variety of data about you.
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TIMES STAFF WRITER
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| A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted
into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and
ID screening.
Implantable chips have long been discussed by technologists and denounced by those who
object on religious grounds or fear their use by a totalitarian state. But the company that
did the test, Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, said the specter of terrorism is
shifting attitudes. The direct union of man and computer is no longer dismissed out of hand. |
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Story highlights:
 | (No small company) Applied Digital had revenue of $165 million in year 2000. Dec. 2001
Nasdaq market value: 95 million. |
| Their chips are currently used to help farmers keep tabs on the health and safety of their
cows and other livestock. |
| Company also makes a monitoring bracelet for Alzheimer patients, so that families can use
global positioning satellite systems to help find loved ones who might have wandered off. |
| Next market among those who have artificial organs and limbs. Up to 60 words of relevant
medical information implanted on chips. |
| Potential market: kidnap targets. Could use chips in combination with global positioning
devices. |
| Other potential applications: ultimate ID, capable of performing many of the roles that are
performed by keys and ATM cards. |
| Another potential applications: have a secure form of identification. |
| No deformity of the skin |
| A "glorified bar code" |
| Potential use as a built-in credit card. |
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