Getting under your skin?

Thomas Seidler  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Sep 2007
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You are about to read very strange information.

1984 or The Manchurian Candidate may be the closest you’ve got to studying manipulative human agencies of questionable intent. Use your mind and Google/Yahoo. Everything that is said can be checked. Much of this information has already been published in the daily national papers

Implantable chips of varying degrees of complexity, function and implant location may well have a significant role in the future of our society to judge by the investors and the amount invested. Here we have an historical overview, a present study, and a consideration of future trajectory — the latter infused with a Christian perspective.

Historical overview

In 1866, Simonoff conducted the first experiment using electrodes implanted in the brain stem of mammals. In 1948, Norbert Weiner said, ‘Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybernetics thus stand in a moral position not very comfortable. We have contributed to the initiation of a new science which embraces technical developments with great possibilities for good and for evil.’

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