strategic-culture | In the Book of Revelation [13:16-17], there is a passage that has
attracted the imagination of believers and disbelievers throughout the
ages, and perhaps never more so than right now: “And he causeth all,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in
their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark…”
Was John of Patmos history’s first conspiracy theorist, or are we
merely indulging ourselves today with a case of self-fulfilling
prophecy? Whatever the case may be, many people would probably have
serious reservations about being branded with an ID code even if it had
never been mentioned in Holy Scripture. But that certainly has not
stopped Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has been warning about a
global pandemic for years, from pushing such controversial technologies
on all of us.
In September 2019, just three months before the coronavirus first
appeared in China, ID2020, a San Francisco-based biometric company that
counts Microsoft as one of its founding members, quietly announced
it was undertaking a new project that involves the “exploration of
multiple biometric identification technologies for infants” that is
based on “infant immunization” and only uses the “most successful
approaches”.
For anyone who may be wondering what one of those “most successful
approaches” might look like, consider the following top contender for
the contract. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) have developed what is essentially a hi-tech ‘tattoo’ that stores
data in invisible dye under the skin. The ‘mark’ would be delivered
together with a vaccine, most likely administered by Gavi, the global vaccine agency that also falls under the umbrella of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
“The researchers showed that their new dye, which consists of
nanocrystals called quantum dots… emits near-infrared light that can be
detected by a specially equipped smartphone,” MIT News reported.
And if the reader scrolls to the very bottom of the article, he will
find that this study was funded first and foremost by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation.
Today, with the global service economy shut down to prevent large
groups of infectious humans from assembling, it is easier to imagine a
day when people are required to have their infrared ID ‘tattoo’ scanned
in order to be granted access to any number of public venues. And from
there, it requires little stretch of the imagination to see this same
tracking nanotechnology being applied broadly across the global economy,
where it could be used to eliminate the use of dirty money. After all,
if reusable bags are being outlawed over the coronavirus panic-demic, why should reusable cash get special treatment?
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