There is an underground movement in which people get implants as commonly as others get tattoos. They are “biohackers” who aim to augment the human body with technology and are at the vanguard of a movement called trans-humanism that experiments with how technology can give people new abilities.
Bio-hacking enthusiasts have tinkered with electronic tattoos and sub-dermal, underneath-the-skin, implants for two decades. Proponents believe smart implants represent the future of wearable technology, believing it could potentially make humans healthier and more efficient while providing new opportunity.
One person described how a man of a beastly persona with metal horns protruding from his forehead and a split tongue poking out between his teeth performed a procedure on her to insert a gold-plated, silicone-coated magnet the size of a pencil eraser inside her finger. Then told her how to take care of the wound in the weeks following to make sure her body didn’t reject the magnet as it healed.
People as these were among the first to put an RFID chip under their skin, letting them turn lights on and off and interact with appliances by scanning their chip with computer-controlled devices. Today, these people and technology companies are pushing the concept even further.
For example, MIT in partnership with a research arm of Microsoft recently developed a device called DuoSkin that looks like a metallic tattoo and duals as a trackpad for mobile devices. Another group is developing brain implants that can help predict tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease and there is also a group building an implantable device which records health data and transmits it via Bluetooth to Android devices.
Health/life sciences and consumer product companies are now planning to develop a wave of products that integrate the human body with technology, according to recent published predictions on the consumer tech industry. They refer to this industry as “augmented humanity,” and predict the concept will go mainstream.
Much of this biohacker culture still flies largely under the radar, but investors and corporations have begun to take notice, funding and building products inspired by many of the same ideas.
These are Signs of the Last Days of the Revelation prophecy for what is called the Beast, where people are mandated to have the number of the beast which is 666 to be a part of their human body either on their forehead or on their hand. And without this Mark of the Beast no one will be able to participate as a consumer in the world economy to buy or sell.
“The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority… And all the world marveled and followed the beast… All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb…” ~ Revelation 13:2-8