The logical extrapolation of all the techno wizardry that we have been considering this week is summed up in this photo.
What you are looking at is a bio-metric chip. It is slightly longer than a grain of rice and contains a billion bits of information.
It runs by the electrolytes in the human body and constantly re-charges itself.
What could be simpler than to have one inserted into a person's hand.?Thus conveniently and invisibly all credit cards, medical data, financial accounts, passport information, travel records etc are rolled into one and made instantly accessible.
The chip cannot be duplicated, counterfeited or stolen.
It is the wonderful way of the future and it is coming to a city near you.
You can count on it.
The 'how' and the 'why' of the implant have already been figured out by minds a lot sharper than mine. The question remains 'who' will be receive it?
If Revelation 13 is to be believed there will a lot of people in the line-up.
This old guy won't be one of them. They wouldn't be able to get the needle in. These days my skin is just too thick.
Jubilate.
Ian
While there are vast and undeniable benefits from transacting money at the speed of light, there are also some ominous drawbacks.
The most obvious among them is the loss of personal privacy.
For proof of that simply look at your itemised cell phone bill.
Everything is traced and accounted for; the person you called, the length of the call to the nearest second and where you called from.
Electronic financial transactions will be even more detailed.
In time gone by money could be hoarded, cash stashed under the floor boards or hidden in secret accounts.
With electronic cash everything will be monitored through the existing satellite systems and structures that are ALREADY IN PLACE.
What the people of Sweden (or some of them) are alarmed about is not the introduction of cashless trading but the IMPOSITION of it.
You can read their comments first hand if you google 'Sweden goes cashless'.... and remember in a few years time their words might be yours!
Jubilate.
Ian
There was a robust response to yesterday's post on Sweden going cashless (with the prospect of Europe to follow).
This, of course, begs the question as to how all this could ever take place.
The truth is that we are almost cashless in the West already.
Only 3% of financial transactions in Sweden are completed in paper money, 8% in Germany, 7% in the U.S.A and in Australia, England and Canada the figures are around 10%.
All other transactions are electronic in some form or another.
In a recent survey in Canada 56% of people said that they would prefer never to handle money again and simply use their "digital wallet."
Author of the book "The End of Money," David Wolman, has said that it will be the ubiquitous cell phone that will eventually take nations fully into cyber-cash: cell phones that will allow transfer of money from person to person independent of banks and from which shopping will be conducted with a press of a button at the cash-out.
This author is also looking forward to the implant which will be the final step into our Brave-New World.
But more about that tomorrow.
Ian
News came from Sweden last week that within two years the nation will dispense with paper money. All financial transactions will be conducted electronically and the population better start preparing for it NOW.
So from the forty train loads of euro bills that chugged across Europe to feed the banks of the Common Market in 2002, there will be cyber technology in place that will fit into a medium sized suit-case. Technology that will eliminate all fiat (paper) money and in the next ten years will have spread across nations involving 800 million people.
Ten years ago when I was preaching about the end of cash and the introduction of electronic chips to replace it I was looked upon with faint amusement. Well folks it's here and if you wish to know more about it read Revelation chapter 13.
Meantime I suggest that you keep your hands in your pockets because shortly they will wanting to put a micro-chip in them.
Jubilate
Ian
As a postscript to the Titanic it is worthwhile noting that this magnificent vessel, although given a name, was never christened.
J.P. Morgan, the atheistic banker who owned the White-Star shipping company did not believe that his ships should be launched with the customary words:
"May God bless this vessel and all who sail in her."
We do not know whether the catastrophe of April 14, 1912 helped change his mind about the baptism of his ships, but the absence of the ceremony was noted by many others.
Until this present day the practice of the champagne ritual continues with the implicit understanding that things really do go better with the blessing of Almighty God!
Jubilate.
Ian
