OHzone : 666, commerce, e-commerce, microchips...

[March 21, 2006]

Good morning, Everybody -

With so much talk about the end times and Bible prophecy being fulfilled, I thought you might be interested in the background of a remotely-programmable microchip which has been being manufactured and marketed in the U.S. for the past several years under the name of Digital Angel - especially since there are now stores in the U.S. where you can shop without using cash, OR a bank card, OR a debit card - just by having your hand scanned for the presence of such a chip.

This is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent out to my mailing list back in 2000. It quotes PropheZine, an established and reputable newsletter that relays news of interest to Christians. It has correspondents all over the world gathering articles from various news sources and submitting them to http://www.PropheZine.com - which I haven't visited for a few years now, but at that point in time I'd been subscribing for several years and found them to be a reliable source of information.

Now to the e-mail, PropheZine, and through PropheZine the Fox News item about Digital Angel. :-) This is really, REALLY interesting. I hadn't realized until I re-read the item this morning that the outfit that developed Digital Angel is primarily interested in e-commerce - so this chip was ***specially designed*** to assist in economic transactions. As Fox says in the article,

"Since Applied Digital Solutions is primarily an e-commerce solutions company, one way the company wants to see the chip used is for identification and authentication for electronic commerce. As Sullivan puts it, "You want to access and go online with your MSN or AOL account, you'll have DA transmitting your profile at request."

The same could be true for Amazon and any other electronic retailer. One-click shopping is somewhat obsolete when competing against something that identifies you by your mere presence."

Now to my original e-mail of October, 2000:

Hi, Folks -

Interesting technological developments in this issue of PropheZine News Bites include the discovery of an earth-like planet near Saturn; satellite technology now available to China with potential military spin-offs; and of course more on Digital Angel. The full stories are below, okay?

I haven't forwarded the Middle East update because it's a long one, but these are the headlines:

PROPHEZINE NEWSBITES
23 October, 2000
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.. BARAK CALLS TIME-OUT
2.. U.N. Condemns Israeli Use of Force
3.. NO LET-UP IN VIOLENCE, NEAR-LYNCHINGS
4.. Arafat losing control
5.. ARAFAT DEMANDS PARTITION, JERUSALEM, AND REFUGEES - RESPONSES TO THE ARAB LEAGUE FINAL SUMMATION
6.. Arafat says struggle to continue until victory
7.. Summary of today's Events in Israel
8.. Iran's Khomeini: Only way to solve crisis is to eradicate Israel
9.. IDF fears Arafat is pushing for war
Good thing we've read the end of the Book, isn't it?

Okay, here are the full articles referred to above:

Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:02:26 -0400
From: Prophezine News Bytes
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PROPHEZINE NEWSBITES
23 October, 2000
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.. 'Titanic' Discovery: Earth-Like Weather and Methane Rain
2.. Microspace Technology Comes to China
3.. 11 Billion-Year-Old Gamma Burst Discovered in Space
4.. Digital Angel: The New Eye in the Sky
[snip - I deleted articles 1, 2 & 3 for brevity - Doris]

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Americas

Digital Angel: The New Eye in the Sky
Mon Oct 16 13:17:50 2000 - Note date!!!

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/vtech/101600/da.sml

A network of satellites sends a positioning signal to a chip implanted beneath your skin. That chip, powered solely by body heat, relays the signal and your body's vital stats to a ground station. The folks manning that ground station, as well as authorized Internet users, can use that information for identifying you, tracking you and monitoring your health.

It's not sci-fi. Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) will, on Oct. 26, unveil and demonstrate Digital Angel, or DA, which is being touted for a number of uses. There's the potential for the technology to monitor chronically-ill patients, track livestock to ensure food quality, track people who are at-risk for kidnapping, enforce the terms of a parole and identify people for security and e-commerce applications.

The Digital Angel system makes use of the Global Positioning System's network of satellites to figure out the chip's position. On-board biometric technology is capable of monitoring vital statistics such as body temperature, pulse rate and blood pressure. This information is then relayed via either another GPS signal or a wireless communications signal to a remote monitoring system.

The whole system is powered by body heat, so the chip doesn't have any batteries that need replacing. "The power source is building power all the time," says Richard Sullivan, Applied Digital Solutions' CEO. "In drawing together the GPS and wireless capabilities and the first-ever integration of biosensor and heat-sensitive power regeneration," he says, "we should become the benchmark of the industry - we should become the industry leader in that area."

Subdermal Silicon

While implantation under the skin in humans is an issue still pending with the Food and Drug Administration, that won't delay the release of Digital Angel. "I think that FDA approval is, in the interim, not necessary because DA can be a wristband or adhered to anywhere on your body via a patch," says Sullivan.

But make no mistake - implantation is on the way. According to Sullivan, the FDA is first interested in implanting livestock with the chip so the quality of meat can be ensured. Digital Angel doesn't transmit a signal all the time. Ordinarily, the only way the chip would be activated would be by a controlling authority - a parent in the case of a kidnapping, an owner in the case of a theft, a doctor in the case of an ill patient.

"If you call upon it, it emits the appropriate information that's requested. And/or in the case of an emergency, it has low-line minimums that cause DA to turn on automatically," says Sullivan. These minimums would activate the chip in an emergency - a heart attack, for example.

Throw Away Your Credit Cards?

Since Applied Digital Solutions is primarily an e-commerce solutions company, one way the company wants to see the chip used is for identification and authentication for electronic commerce. As Sullivan puts it, "You want to access and go online with your MSN or AOL account, you'll have DA transmitting your profile at request."

The same could be true for Amazon and any other electronic retailer. One-click shopping is somewhat obsolete when competing against something that identifies you by your mere presence.

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(((HUGS))) and blessings,

Doris
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