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Your future - to be realised, if they can manage it, by 2030

From GlobalResearch.ca, including quotes from the WEF online documentation

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[i]Implantable microchips are marketed as the ultimate in convenience, but the goal is to create the Internet of Bodies (IoB), described by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as an ecosystem of “an unprecedented number of sensors,” including emotional sensors, “attached to, implanted within, or ingested into human bodies to monitor, analyze and even modify human bodies and behavior”

Sweden is one of the earliest adopters of implantable microchips. The chip is implanted just beneath the skin on the hand, and operates using either near-field communication (NFC) — the same technology used in smartphones — or radio-frequency identification (RFID), which is used in contactless credit cards
Implanted payment chips are an extension of the internet of things; they’re a way of connecting and exchanging data, and the benefits must be weighed against the potential risks.

Countries around the world are now working on a system for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a fiat currency in digital form that is programmable so that you can only spend your money on certain things or in specific places, as desired by the issuer.

In the end, everything will be connected to a single implantable device that will hold your digital identity, health data and programmable CBDCs. Your digital identity, in turn, will include everything that can be known about you through surveillance via implanted biosensors, your computer, smartphone, GPS, social media, online searches, purchases and spending habits. Algorithms will then decide what you can and cannot do based on who you are.

While implantable microchips are marketed as the ultimate in convenience, the goal of this trend goes far beyond allowing you to open doors without keys and buy things without your wallet. The goal is to create what’s known as the Internet of Bodies (IoB), described by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as an ecosystem of “an unprecedented number of sensors,” including emotional sensors, “attached to, implanted within, or ingested into human bodies to monitor, analyze and even modify human bodies and behavior

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ArishMell · 70-79, M
"ingested" . I can't see that working, somehow. The body has its own way of dealing with indigestible, insoluble objects.

The WEF might harbour such dreams but whilst I can see the idea of implanted chips as indeed are already sold, controlling what buildings we may use or enter; I think the notion of one to be able to control our thoughts including emotions really too far-fetched.

For one thing, I don't think anyone has worked out how the brain actually operates those functions. They know which areas of the brain are involved and how individual cells work, but that's like trying to understand a Cray super-computer from the definition of a transistor - and though the brain is much less powerful in energy terms, it is far more subtle in function than a computer.

It would also demand considerable political and social will to adopt such gadgets for them be any sort of effective tool. It might work in North Korea, but not in many other countries and cultures.

Also, talk of "algorithm" is a red herring. It's a word beloved of Sunday-supplement columnists, but an "algorithm" is merely an arithmetical routine within a computer programme; and that entire programme has to be designed and written by people for specific purposes. Good or ill; but human purposes and makers.

Saying so-and-so is by "algorithm" is a bit like saying you live your life by gearbox. No you don't. However much you use your car for your necessary and chosen journeys, it is just a transport tool and the gearbox is just a part of that tool. You decide its use, for purposes external to it.

Most of these WEF people appear to be only over-promoted, over-paid money-traders who enjoy talking-shops, and I do not expect much scientific knowledge or rational technical thought from money-traders. Yes, what they might imagine is certainly frightening, but I think far from reality and not something for we septagenarians (as I now am) to worry ourselves over!

Besides, why use an implant? If you don't care about privacy, just be a Facebook user and do all your shopping on-line, all via a "smart"-'phone, social-media "influencers" and one of those 'Alexa' eavesdroppers!