14 DAY TRIAL // The famous Internet initiator, the well-known US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in short DARPA, has reportedly announced plans to create nanochips for monitoring the health of the nation’s troops on the battlefield.
The chip sensors would be injected to soldiers and the aim is to prevent illness and disease.
While there no such chip exists today, because if it had, then any company selling it would be a hundred times richer than Apple, DARPA would still like to, at least, monitor the soldiers.
It would be more effective to track them if they got lost. Of course, there are a lot of people in the US and in the entire world who are against putting computer chips inside their bodies.
There was a very powerful media campaign several years ago, which advocated RFID implanted chips where some families with questionable IQ were stating that their children would be “safer.”
The absurdity of such statements is obvious, as no implantable chip would stop a bullet coming from your angry neighbor’s gun and it definitely wouldn’t stop a knife when you’re getting robbed.
Still, there are uncountable uninformed citizens out there that think giving up your privacy and civil liberties would stop a robbery in progress.
DARPA has the upper hand when it comes to the military, as soldiers must comply with certain requirements if they still want to be soldiers, and they can’t really refuse an order.
Many would object on the grounds that this means the government can locate and monitor you, and they would be especially right, since the government could definitely locate all three 9/11 planes, but that didn’t seem to do them any good.
DARPA is calling the initiative "a truly disruptive innovation," that could help the US fight healthier and more efficiently than its adversaries.
On the other hand, what can an implantable chip do, that a wrist band with sensors can’t monitor?