I have been posting stories and talking about RFID for years, but this one takes the cake. A Christian consumer advocate has deduced (or gotten a message from God?) that RFID tags ae going to “evolve” to become the Mark of the Beast or 666.

She sees

otalitarian scenarios, based on documented plans by Philips, Procter and Gamble, Wal-Mart and other companies, along with the federal government, to track consumer goods and people individually.

And of course, when we all have RFID implants, they could end up festering, and voila, a sore. What is totally interesting is that the original foreward to the book (she didn’t use it) was written by Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author. Politics, literature and a quest for fame breeds strange bedfellows. Wired News:

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