RFID microchipping will be used to transfer personal information to smart phones and other personal devices – and, of course, allow you to be tracked everywhere you go by government.
However, Shanti Korporaal, from Sydney, has had two implants inserted under her skin.
She says she can get into work and her car without carrying a card or keys, and says her ultimate goal is to completely do away with her wallet and cards.
Out of convenience - you at least have the option (for now) of leaving them behind when you go somewhere.
Could authorities actually track you?
Boston city's police department have been using cellphone technology 11 times over the past seven years without once obtaining a search warrant as required by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
In fact, the American Civil Liberties Union found that "many" of nearly 200 departments surveyed tracked without warrant.
Privacy in a digital world comes at a premium as it is. Our retinas are scanned, our wallets are scanned, our online data is hacked and our movements are already being tracked – both by government and by private corporations. But all of those methods can be mitigated. It's very difficult to mitigate personal tracking when you're carrying the tracker inside your body.
Shanti Korporaal thinks differently after starting up an Australian distribution service called Chip My Life.
"You could set up your life so you never have to worry about any passwords or PINs."
It costs between $80 and $140 depending on the sophistication of the technology, and (while you can do it at home) they work with doctors who charge $150 to insert the implant.
“Ever since watching movies like the Terminator, Matrix and Minority Report I wondered if we could actually live like that. I always wondered why we all weren’t living as ‘super-humans’.”
Shanti Korporaal has had some messages from ultra-conservative Christians on Facebook telling her she’s going to hell, but the reaction has mainly been one of intrigue.
If government can track you 24/7/365, government can control you as well.
