Working in Movement

Reality has a funny way of imitating fiction. First it was implanting sensors in kids brains to monitor stress as written about in Elroy Jetson's brain. Now something like one of the looniest bits from a 1960s movie seems to be coming our way. In The President's Analyst, the evil, all pervasive phone company (this was pre-dereg days, remember) was plotting to imbed telephones in everyone's brain. We all loved to hate THE phone company in those days, and it sounded like something they would do. The technology didn't exist then, thank goodness. But things change. Human Chipping on its way with VeriChip reports on a "radio frequency identification device" that can be implanted under the skin. Which is to say that your credit card would literally be under your skin and store sensors could charge your purchases instantly.

What's in your wallet?