Dear John and Doves,

This article expresses it so well. No named author, but obviously an insightful person.
Fair educational use :

This may get under your skin
July 24, 2007 

Voices from the left and the right are talking about locks on the barn door as the horse named Technology breezes past and heads toward the future.

Our future.

Implanted microchips for workers in high-security settings make some think of biblical predictions of the "Mark of the Beast" while others see signs of Big Brother.

Extremist concerns? Maybe. But concerns all along the ideological spectrum remain unresolved. Meanwhile, technology is redefining what we can do before our society decides whether we should do it.

Be very clear: This is not your mother's employee-identification badge. It's not your grandfather's medical-alert bracelet, either.

It's not even analogous to that fingerprint card you had made in case you ever had to help the police search for a missing child.

Radio frequency identification chips - RFIDs - are relatively easy to implant but not so easy to remove because they can migrate around the body. They have big selling points. They can identify employees who have access to sensitive areas, help emergency-room physicians quickly get medical histories and identify people who cannot - or do not want to - identify themselves.

People have long used them for pets because an implanted chip can't be lost or easily removed like a collar and license. It can help a lost animal get home safely.

But "people are not pets," as the protesters pointed out at a demonstration in Florida against a plan to implant chips in 200 Alzheimer's patients. Unlike pets, people have an expectation of privacy.

What's more, the rationale that society needs the ability to keep track of some people has been used to suggest implanting U.S. soldiers, inmates, sex offenders and guest workers. It hasn't happened. But if it does start, it would be easy to expand on that list.

Too easy.

Chips have been implanted into willing workers for security purposes. What happens when employers begin telling workers that being tagged is the price of a job?

The marketplace compounds the question because there is money to be made here. After news of the plan to tag Alzheimer's patients, the stock of VeriChip, which makes the tags, jumped 27 percent in one day.

Technology does not yet exist to implant global-positioning transceivers that would allow your every move to be tracked.
But it will exist someday.

Will that be the day before a free society morphs into a society where you cannot choose to drop out, get lost and disappear? Not so long ago, the idea of your employer being able to contact you 24/7 was fantasy. What if beepers became part of your body?

It may be too late to lock the barn door on this technology. It's also too early to condemn it. It is exactly the right time to ask hard questions and demand that that this technology does more than provide a wild ride to an unknown destination.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0724tue2-24.html

Our comment:
We noticed the line that says:
" Will that be the day before a free society morphs into a society where you cannot choose to drop out, get lost and disappear?"
Yes indeed... How the whole world would like to escape this global situation that has no way out.

And how marvelous ( Romans 11: 33-36 ) that God has already devised such an ingenious escape plan
( 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18 )
that we couldn't have thought of it no matter how hard we tried. ( Habakkuk 1:5 )

In Him,
Jim and Angela Goodrick