As the complexity and convenience of technology increases, some of the new advancements such as microchip implant for humans and animals can be very controversial. At first, the implants may seem to have benefits but in the long run they will actually cause more trouble than they are worth. These potential "troublemakers" are about the size of an elongated grain of rice and are injected in the skin under the arm or hand (Feder, Zeller 15). The chip is not powered by battery and there is nothing that can possibly leak out into the body (Posada-Swafford 8). An early form of this technology was used to monitor salmon and has been used for other wildlife research (Verhovek 5). The idea of the chips was started from the September 11 tragedy …show more content…
Maybe the low cost has something to do with the steady rise in pet implants. Another contributing factor to the rise in chips is that many animal shelters around the country have the chips put in the animals when they are adopted (Verhovek 5). For example, the entire city of Los Angeles, which has one of the highest numbers of stray pets in the nation, requires that all stray pets found must have the microchip put in their shoulder (Lubell 13). The first animal shelter in the United States to have all their adopted animals implanted with the chips was the Marin Humane Society in Northern California (Verhovek 5). Contrary to common belief, the tags in the pets are not tracking devices like the ones put in wildlife. Instead, they have a code that when scanned through a computer brings up information about the pet, including who the owners are. However, years ago the scanner used to read the chips in pets could not read the chip if it was made by a different company (Lubell 13). Now, universal scanners have been implemented that read all different brands of chips. The chips in pets are not only used here in the United States, but also in many other countries around the globe. For example, any pet traveling to Britain and France must have a microchip" (Lubell 13). Because of the rising
If I were to agree to implant chips into people they would be good reasons to do it.One of my main reasons would be to have society move faster when it comes to shopping.Who likes to wait in the line for a while?none so that would give them a reason to have a chip inserted into their hand.It will be a quick scan and there your set when it comes to paying.A chip can have you set within less than five minutes in line.
Microchip implant is an exceptionally well thought authentication method that has the possibility of making a huge impact in securing information. The concept of microchip implant was introduced in 1945 by Leon Theremin, who was the originator of one of the first covert devices which is also known as “bugs”. This device is followed by Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology which is a small electronic device that contains a chip. This chips allows the ability to store data typically ranging up to 2,000 bytes or less. RFID is comparable to magnetic strips or bar codes because they all act as a unique identifier for a specific purpose. In order to obtain information from an RFID, you must scan the device just as how a magnetic strip or bar code would require scanning. RFID can also be described as the wireless non-contact use of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields that helps in transferring data with the goal of being able to automatically recognize and monitor tags that are being attached to objects. RFID technology is currently being used by many different industries varying from identifications badges that enclose RFID tags that assist with eliminating the chances of shoplifting, to vehicles using the technology to help monitor the production process and track the vehicles across the assembly line. Other scenarios that may use the microchip implant includes animals having RFID tags placed in them for identification purposes as
Scott McNealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems quoted a controversial statement that “If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.” Benefits of implanting locator chips in children are
In Laura Cabrera’s journal article, “Human Implants: A Suggested Framework to Set Priorities”, Cabrera references many experts’ works in order to set a formal foundation of transhumanist knowledge for both the followers and skeptics of transhumanism, eventually bringing into light a much-ignored topic, technoethics. Finally, she clearly presents her logical approach in tackling the pressing questions technoethics brings regarding human implants, following a trend that others before her in the field of human bioenhancement have taken before, letting her work speak for itself and show the grave consequences technoethics entail and what they as a society could do to resolve it.
Graafstra has designed bio-safe magnets and recently made a microchip that gets implanted into your hand which he experiments all his creations on himself. The microchip he’s created called the RFID, holds encrypted propaganda, and they also have ID numbers that can be used to unlock a person’s smartphone, which from watching the news or looking at social media you’ll know this would be useful for unlocking terrorists’ phones since we’ve had trouble with that recently and in the past. At the convention it was said that a lot of people actually lined up to be “chipped” as they called it, while others just stared and wondered why they would want to do this. If you were like Sasha Rose, who was at the convention at her meditation booth, it was reported she said “She shook her head: This was the craziest thing she had seen. She wondered about Graafstra's credentials. She thought this was a medical procedure, so
Dissecting the questionable article, “ObamaCare Microchip RFID Myth” (DeMichele, T., 2015). It’s purpose is to discourage the American public of the possibility of a mandated RFID chip implant. The article
Currently 70,000 Americans are on the organ waiting list and fewer than 20,000 of these people can hope to have their lives saved by human organ transplantation.1 As a result of this shortage, there has been a tremendous demand for research in alternative methods of organ transplantation. Private companies are racing to develop these technologies with an estimated market of six billion dollars.2 Xenotransplantation, or cross-species organ transplantation, appears to be the most likely solution in the near future, and cloned pigs are the main candidates. Pigs and humans have remarkable similarities in physiology, which along with cloning makes pigs strong possibilities for organ donors. A
The VeriChip human implant is a glass-encapsulated RFID microchip as small as a grain of rice that is merchandized as a method of accessing medical records in an emergency, for use as a payment device, and as a way to control access to secure facilities (Albrecht, 2008). At a glance given all the seductive yet false benefits that it promotes –such as the convenience of not having to worry about carrying or losing cash, cards and ID’s; the effortless way to activate gadgets such as cellular phones, cars, and even locks; and the much easier and faster, no-need-to-line-up transactions since waving of one’s hand would suffice—the implant without a doubt appears to be absolutely convincing, especially in this generation of vulnerable minds that
Every year the world evolves, technology expands, and consumers rush to buy the newest gadgets and gizmos to make their life easier. With the rise in technology, the demands on society have also expanded as people crave the instantaneous satisfaction and give in to the ultimate consumer mentality. In order to keep up, we continue to push the boundaries to make life more seamless and make the consumer experience better. We challenge ourselves to take things further and in the end we are left with one question: how far is too far? The average person carries a wallet and is required to know intimate personal information at will. We give this information to healthcare providers, law enforcement, and other institutions as a form of identification
Some questions that everyone must ask about the microchip implants is, how will this technology be implemented? Will it be mandatory or a choice? Who will be in control of the device? And is it a medically sound device? The answer to the first question is a two part answer the first part being that the RFID chip is not a new concept the implementation of this device has already begun. People should be made aware that for a number of years now they have been getting the public acclimated to the idea of the microchip implants in ways such as offering them as a means to track lost pets and wandering livestock so first and foremost the primary use of the device is to track. They have since moved on to other means of utilizing the chip, they are now slowly rolling out credit and debit cards that contain the RFID chip technology, which controls the access to your funds so as said before the concept is not new it has been a work in progress.
You will realize that these microchips normally last the entire lifetime of your dog. This is because they do not break down and that do not wear out. If you have fit collars on dogs, you will realize that these collars will break now and then. If a dog has ever tried to force its way through a fence, his collar can get torn and there goes his form of identification. Identification tags also normally wear out thereby making it difficult for you to read the name on the identification tags. However, microchips do not have these problems. They are long lasting.
Many ask why animals are used to test on. “It’s the closest thing to humans that's not human,” is what laboratories that get payed crazy dollars to test on these poor animals. The animals are usually testing the toxicity of medicine. Also they test the effects of different soaps in their eyes. Animal testing has been successful, it has created cures for 21 cancers and many illnesses, but 100’s of thousands of animals had to die when there is another way. The other way never would have touched an animal, it uses an microchips and a computer software. Its called Microfluidic chip. It replicates the movement of the bodies organs. Different inputs go into the software and it runs the program and an output shows what would happen in the body. Also, according to Kara Rogersm from britannica.com, “We can grow human skin cells in glass containers to use to test toxicity.” Using
Imagine, for what feels like decades, you have been in and out of the hospital every other week whether it’s a new diagnosis, another treatment, or a possibly fatal surgery. This nightmare is a reality for hundreds of thousands of Americans living with leukemia, a very dangerous cancer of white blood cells or leukocytes that help fight infections. The only way to recover from leukemia is to receive chemotherapy to kill off the cancerous bone marrow using chemotherapy then the bone marrows stem cells are replaced with cells of matching donors. But bone marrow transplants like this can be impossible for people who have rare blood types or certain blood disorders. This problem is one of many that the use of cloning of human tissue and cells can treat. The extensive ban on human cloning across 46 influence countries ranging from Australia to Brazil needs to be reprimanded do to the fact that the cloning methods are safe and viable process, to enable families who previously could not have children to conceive, and to allow for the use of therapeutic stem cells to heal victims of catastrophe or even cure some blood diseases.
The peaceful world today had faced countless numbers of conflicts and changes before it became the world everyone knows. There are tens of thousands of wars created by humans in the history of the world, not including the one that has yet to occur (Oakley, 2013). In order to win a war, weapons are indeed a necessity. Numerous pieces of technology, which can be deadly, are being made daily. The cloning of animals is one of the most advanced technologies in history. This may seem astonishing for sources of food, but humans will not stop here. The more challenging task is to clone a human. As interesting as it may sound, there is always a downside to everything, which people do not see as an issue. Humans tend to utilize the most out of everything. If the cloning of a human is no longer a fantasy, it would be one of the most terrifying disasters in history. Therefore, a study or research on human cloning should never exist because it will decrease the value of human life and cause many problems to the world.
If it is not for microchips, the problem of pet negligence would be even greater than it is at the present moment. A microchip can also help to reunite lost pets back to their owners. It carries a number, and this number is plugged into a database that includes the name and contact information of a pet's owner. It is close to impossible for a dog-napper to remove a microchip and therefore microchips eliminate such an action as well. Pet-owners tend to have concerns of infections and excessive bleeding when it comes to microchip implantation. However, if the microchip is implanted using professional techniques, such risks would be negligible.