How many years will it take for USA to mandate micro-chips placed in humans for security measures?
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micro chips are used by satilites to find pets already! once they said cloning was not possible  but humans reached that yrs ago.... sex offenders, and high risk patients should be monitored, they have no legal rts.... but freedom will be at a  end w chip plantation.... also have u seen the latest gps global map systems?  i can see my subdivision and make of car on here at home  and took a look at my freinds house in the suburbs of boston!  he could not believe i told him he had a large pool in his back yard and a yellow garage w green roof.... eheheh...so what is next   we can spy on our own selves and freinds throughtout.... so will private owner s of these gps co. let the average computer joe find their own pet?  (good idea) stolen car,  or track our children's location when not at home?  or is hubby really at work?  what will happen to FREE WILL to do the rt thing?  what are ur thoughts?
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nanotechnology is working with microchips and tiny electrical stuff.
1118372
If that monkey and his crooked administration were to remain in power, mandatory microchipping would be next.
538562
I would think that microelectronics is just another word for integrated circuit. Now adays the can fit 1 billion transistors on a tiny little chip. ICs are used everywhere now (cars, microwaves, computers, cell phones, etc...).\n\nmore info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit
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look into nano-tech. we already have injectable little machines that proform surgery. the power to weight ratio is amazing
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I met one.  He was a salesmen who sold those chips.  He had one put in his arm so he could demonstrate their use.\n\nThere really isn't any reason to experiment on people for this.  The chips are the size of a large grain of rice, which is much smaller than many implanted medical devices.  They have a biologically inert covering.  Medically, they are about as harmless as anything that can be implanted.  The privacy issues are a different matter.
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This is theorized, but not in use.  \nIt is theorized often in "end - time" scenarios of a cashless society by evangelical Christians (like myself).\n\nThe chip actually exists.  It only contains a number.  \nThat number can be used to reference a database and theoretically pull up an account from which you can spend like a credit card. \n\nSo: instead of swiping your card.  They would just scan your arm.\n\nThe chip is currently used in pet identification.  My dog has one implanted.  If she's ever lost and found, a vet can scan her id #.  This can be looked up in a computer database and my name will pop up as her owner. \n\nI don't think it will happen any time soon in humans. Too much resistance.  \n\nI also think the Mark of the Beast spoken about in Revelation is a physical mark to show identification and allegiance rather than a scar from a chip implant.\n\nHope that helps.\n\nP.S.  Yes, I forgot about that family in FL.  The company that makes these chips is trying to promote them for use in humans for medical records.  Like I said, I still think there will be too much resistance. Maybe people with severe life threatening conditions would feel safer having one, but it must reach "critical" mass for the hospitals to invest in scanners, etc. I don't think that will happen.
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Everything from toys to the chips that helped send the shuttle into space, dog collar controls, radios, ipods, remote controls of all types, cell phones or almost ANY electronic item that you open now days has some sort of micro chip that controls some portion of the product.
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20 years is not a long period of time.  I think that the United States will still definitely "think" it is the center of the world, just like it does now.  But the oil will still belong to the arabs, the chinese will still make everything and  drugs will still make you more money than anything else (think tobacco).\n\nSo corporations who control drugs, food, alcohol, oil and information will rule the world (kinda like they do now)\n\nAs for being slaves to machines, take a look at us now.  We are volunteering hours of time answering questions for free while an unmanned machine watches over us! Talk about the "Matrix".\n\nThe real source of ultimate power for most of the world is water.  There can be no life with out it.  Look forward to tremendous suffering, starvation and brutality as America continues to have one fifth of the worlds population but uses FOUR fifths of the worlds resources.
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No, but that may be based on the literal translation of the word "everything"!\n\nOne way to answer that is to look back over the last 10 years and see where have we been and how far have we gone.  \n\nTechnology is moving at a faster pace than all other areas.  However, it is not really moving that fast.  \n\nRich companies and rich leaders are getting richer because they have found a secret.  The secret is to let out a little new stuff every two to three years to cause mass buying of their product.  They leave some errors "BUG" in them so that people are not completely satisfied and must buy the update when it comes out.  The process keeps repeating itself over and over.  Why put out a great product if you can sell a good product several times within the next 10 years?!  No, we will not be that much farther a head in 10 years, but over time we will have computers will have evolved to do a lot more.  \n\nWe will have something like a computer/TV/radio/telephone/home security/home monitor/ whatever all built into one thinking computer!  How long it takes is up to the Rich guy in Washington State!  He did not become the riches guy in the world by being dumb!
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Very Large-Scale Integration \nVery-large-scale integration (VLSI) of systems of transistor-based circuits into integrated circuits on a single chip first occurred in the 1970s as part of the semiconductor and communication technologies that were being developed.\n\nThe first semiconductor chips held one transistor each. Subsequent advances added more and more transistors, and as a consequence more individual functions or systems were integrated over time. The microprocessor is a VLSI device.\n\nThe first "generation" of computers relied on vacuum tubes. Then came discrete semiconductor devices, followed by integrated circuits. The first Small-Scale Integration (SSI) ICs had small numbers of devices on a single chip – diodes, transistors, resistors and capacitors (no inductors though), making it possible to fabricate one or more logic gates on a single device. The fourth generation consisted of Large-Scale Integration (LSI), i.e. systems with at least a thousand logic gates. The natural successor to LSI was VLSI (many tens of thousands of gates on a single chip). Current technology has moved far past this mark and today's microprocessors have many millions of gates and hundreds of millions of individual transistors.\n\nAs of mid-2004, billion-transistor processors are not yet economically feasible for most uses, but they are achievable in laboratory settings, and they are clearly on the horizon as semiconductor fabrication moves from the current generation of 90 nanometer (90 nm) processes to the next 65 nm and 45 nm generations.
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heck no...next the on the list is NHIS(National Human Indentification System) get ready for your chip too. The animals are the test bed to the future..Practice should be outlawwed
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Extended life span\nBetter health\nBiochips and implants that aid people with all kinds of bisabilities.\nAnd later...\nHuman designed mutations and designer babies.\nThere will be a lot of problems, of ocurse, but in the future, maybe we will be able to use technology instead of being used by it.  If we developed technologies, maybe they have also been misunderstood.  Maybe tech is our evolutive advantage and we should embrace it instead of fear it.
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I have a microchip implanted in my left arm just above my elbow. It can be traced by using GPS, supermarket checkout scanners and garage door openers.
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Wireless devices will be everywhere. The phone, camera, and computer will merge with the internet. Vast databases of information will store, calculate, and notate every change everywhere. We will lose more privacy because of satellite imaging and web cameras. I know communications will become "one touch" access. The way we communicate will make the biggest changes. Look at what engineers have accomplished so far. Electronics is communication.
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This involves years and years of development and testing, and unfortunately it can't be stated in just a few paragraphs in a forum like this. I suggest doing some research online for "FDA Approval Process" and "Guidelines," as the paperwork available for this is somewhere in the thousands of pages.
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I bet it will be nanomachines.  Microscopic machines that work at the molecular level will be crucial in the biomedical fields and in new tech innovations that we use everyday, like today cell phones.  Did you ever see that add for microsoft where it was in the near future and this girl was jogging and she got a video conference call from her dad over her sunglasses? He brought up schematics of art works he was thinking of buying and talking to her while she was jogging... well thats all going to be possible with molecular computers.  Unfortunately though, so will other really bad things, we'll just have to see how it goes.