WEF: ‘Solid, Rational Reasons’ to Implant Microchips in Kids

Guest Post by Michael Nevradakis PhD

Claiming “augmented reality” technology “has the ability to transform society and individual lives,” the World Economic Forum recently suggested there are “solid,” “rational” and “ethical” reasons to consider implanting children with microchips.

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Claiming “augmented reality” technology “has the ability to transform society and individual lives,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) recently suggested there are “solid,” “rational” and “ethical” reasons to consider implanting children with microchips.

According to an article published this month on the WEF website, “Implant technologies could become the norm in the future” and they “form part of a natural evolution that wearables once underwent.”

The article’s author, Kathleen Philips, said there are “compelling” arguments in favor of microchipping humans.

For example, implant technologies could supplant the role currently played by ingestible pharmaceutical products, could help dyslexic children or could “sniff out” food allergens or illnesses such as COVID-19, Philips said.

The potential benefits of these “amazing technologies,” Philips said, are endless — limited only by “ethical arguments” rather than “scientific capacity.”

Philips is vice president of research and development for imec, a Belgian company that describes itself as “the world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital electronics.”

According to the WEF, Philips’ article has been “intentionally misrepresented on sites that spread false information,” adding that “misrepresenting content diminishes open conversations.”

Implantable technologies deliver ‘superpowers’ to kids

According to Philips, while “superheroes have been dominating big and small screens for a while,” nowadays, “many children expect to develop superpowers themselves.”

Suggesting implant technology has the potential to deliver such “superpowers,” she argued, “Technology has always had the potential to transform society and improve our daily and professional lives” — and augmentation technology is no exception.

Dismissing arguments that such expectations are “unattainable,” Philips said, “We’re already making the first strides towards an ‘augmented society,’” citing fitness-tracking apps on smartphones as part of an evolution “from health care to ‘well care.’”

Such “well care,” according to Philips, is “not just about solving an impairment anymore,” but is “about technology that supports you and improves your overall quality of life.”

Philips’ argument closely mirrors claims recently made by Big Tech companies such as Apple in describing the purported benefits of its own healthcare products and apps, as reported recently by The Defender.

How does Philips define “augmentation”?

According to Philips:

“Augmentation can be defined as the extension of rehabilitation where technological aids such as glasses, cochlear implants or prosthetics are designed to restore a lost or impaired function.

“Add it to completely healthy individuals and such technology can augment. Night goggles, exoskeletons and brain-computer interfaces build up the picture.”

“Augmentation” technology “will help in all stages of life: children in a learning environment, professionals at work and ambitious senior citizens,” Philips argued. “There are many possibilities.”

Not only will the technology “become more intertwined with the body in the form of implants,” Philips said. “It will also seamlessly integrate with the environment,” she said, citing examples such as “sensors in a chair.”

The technology is simply part of “a natural evolution that wearables once underwent,” Philips said, arguing that “hearing aids or glasses no longer carry a stigma” but are “accessories and are even considered a fashion item.”

“Likewise,” claims Philips, “implants will evolve into a commodity.”

Getting an implant is more invasive than picking up a pair of glasses, Philips conceded, adding, “Generally, implants will be linked to medical conditions” — suggesting implants will first become commonplace in humans suffering from particular ailments.

Following this, Philips said, “The extent to which a particular device becomes common will depend on the technology’s functionality and how far it’s integrated into your body and daily life(style).”

For instance, implant technologies can include necklaces that “sniff out COVID-19 or food allergens,” for which “there is no immediate reason to implant this extra sense into your body,” whereas “a deadly peanut allergy may justify a more permanent solution.”

She also suggested that “brain implants take us one step further” by allowing us to “tap straight into the body’s ‘operating system,’” arguing such technology is already being used to “mitigate symptoms of epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease or depression.”

“Most [though notably not all] applications will remain based on medical necessity rather than a mind reading tool,” she said, and “brain implants may [emphasis added] not be the first choice in our augmented society.”

As an example of “medical necessity,” Philips noted that “electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve, the superhighway that originates in the brain, is rumoured to be a miracle therapy for treatment-resistant depression.”

‘Solid, rational reasons’ to ‘implant a tracking chip in your child’

For Philips, only “ethical arguments” can limit the encroachment of implantable technologies into our daily lives — and bodies.

Posing the question, “Would you walk around with a chip in your head?” Philips argued chips are no different than “hearing aids or pulse monitors,” or “smart goggles, phones, wristbands and the like.”

It’s “plausible,” she said, that implants will follow a “similar evolution” in the realm of health, and that this “potentially” may be the case in education and the professional world as well.

Posing another hypothetical question, she asked, “Should you implant a tracking chip in your child?” “There are solid, rational reasons for it, like safety,” she said.

Responding to concerns that this may be “a bridge too far,” Philips raised the issue of security, citing the example of the pacemaker worn by former Vice President Dick Cheney, which was apparently modified to prevent hacking.

Philips also asked readers of her article to “consider all the pharmaceuticals you take without question,” arguing, “We often forget that these drugs are related to amphetamines” that already “impact our brains.”

Referring specifically to children, Philips argued dyslexic children might be provided with  “new opportunities through implants that translate in real-time,” while acknowledging that “dyslexia is a personal trait” that we, as a society, have to determine whether we wish to change or not.

Philips’ example of potentially using chips to treat dyslexia in children bears some similarity to claims made in a video produced in 2018 by the WEF, which promoted facial recognition technology used in some Chinese classrooms to “check students [sic] are paying attention.”

This technology was also the subject of a 2018 Mashable article, which described it as having the ability “to measure the expressions of students, including anger, annoyance, surprise, and of course, happiness,” adding that it can alert teachers “when a student’s inattentive behaviour reaches a certain value.”

A Chinese education official was quoted in the Mashable story as claiming “the system is advanced enough to capture the subtle facial expressions in class,” adding that “this is a very efficient way to check class attendance.”

Comments on the WEF’s Facebook page, where the video was posted, were overwhelmingly negative.

For instance, one comment read, “sounds more like a prison to me … Big Brother always watching you in every detail, seems more like having evidence for punishment or reprimand.”

The use of facial recognition technology in classrooms was reported in 2019 to have been “curbed” by Chinese authorities. However, it appears to still be in use at some level, such as making payments, recently prompting a backlash from some parents over privacy concerns.

Philips acknowledged the technology raises some ethical concerns. However, she said, the role of ethical watchdog can and should be played by “overarching or independent institutions,” that can “guide policymakers and researchers in the augmented society on the do’s and don’ts and help build the ethical framework on societal aspects of augmented reality technology.”

Recent initiatives by the Council of Europe and the Dutch government’s Rathenau Institute were cited as examples of such “overarching or independent institutions.”

Implantable technologies part of WEF’s broader promotion of artificial technologies

Philips’ article is another in a recent string of pieces appearing on the WEF’s website promoting the usage of augmented reality, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) in many aspects of society, including children’s education.

As reported by The Defender in May, the WEF, following its annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, that month, touted the benefits of VR and AI in the classroom, going as far as to enthusiastically suggest that it may eventually supplant brick-and-mortar schools altogether.

Other recent articles featured on the WEF’s website have promoted the metaverse as a merger of sorts between one’s physical and “digital” body, and the role AI could play in stemming the spread of so-called “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories” on the Internet.

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hardscrabble farmer

Rational?

That’s a doomed strategy.

Anonymous
Anonymous

When I read about something like this, or living on Mars or the such, I just go to the website People of Walmart and quickly get jolted back into reality.
Edit:
Ginger, not anonymous.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I’m ALL for that. Let Us start with this woman, philips. she clearly has a God Complex Issue. Maybe something implanted in what passes as her brain. Along the lines of….

https://onezero.medium.com/the-scientist-who-got-deep-brain-stimulation-to-cure-his-alcoholism-57b57d1f98a2

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50858172

Worked out well for him in the END. In the land of barry soetoro’s birth.

Anonymous
Anonymous

SURE she would know that word and many more.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka

I don’t even put vaccines or microchips into our pets.

World War Zeke
World War Zeke

…much less ones with a remote kill switch.

Boogieman
Boogieman

It brings a tear to my eye’s when I think of how many will do this.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Anyone else want to grab the women you love and run for the hills, to escape from the WEP, after reading this article?

If they are introducing the idea to the public, then the technology must already be in the mass testing stage. After reading this, If I ever have kids, they are going to be born as off grid ghost citizens. It may be too late for me to escape their databases, But children are hope, they deserve a better life and actual freedom.
I used to watch a technology/crypto privacy focused YouTube channel called: Privacy x ; what I used to considered overly paranoid there, is simply the basics of how the free children of our future will have to live.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Only the paranoid shall survive.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

Well, dearies, at least a WEPH directed, compulsory chip, inserted into your or your child’s body is much more discreet than a common old ear tag as might be encountered in a cattle feed lot.

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Thank you oh wise and omnipotent WEPH rulers for looking out for humanity’s hellth.

Anonymous
Anonymous

What’s the difference between tagging and having social security number, drivers license, credit cards with chips, and phones that identify, track, and snoop on you?

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

One is put on or into your body and those other things can be burned with fire or simply thrown out.

Once one has a permanent chip or tag on or in their body then the process of just throwing out or burning includes that body.

Get it?

Anonymous
Anonymous

And how many people do you know who have thrown out their phones, shredded their cards and IDs, etc? Everyone acts like the NEXT thing is the Mark of the Beast(TM), not all the incremental things before.

They’ll roll out a lesser version instead and idiots will line up like cattle for it.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Cellphone = voluntary tracking chip.
There are apps that allow others who you designate to constantly track you in real time, you download one for your safety.

Anonymous
Anonymous

For safety? Tons of apps have that because idiots think it’s fun.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Some idiots may download it for fun, but I think that most download it to assuage their fears.

KaD
KaD

Wellcare? LOL! Does anyone really think these people give a rats ass about your well being?
They want SLAVES and total control, this is a great way to get it.

Vigilant
Vigilant

The only rat involved here is you, their lab rat.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yes, and the first test group should be politicians..

beau
beau

The article’s author, Kathleen Philips, said there are “compelling” arguments in favor of microchipping humans.

there are c0mpelling arguments to remove tyrannical megalomaniacs, too.

Vigilant
Vigilant

Superheroes have been dominating big and small screens for a while.
Implantable technologies deliver ‘superpowers’ to kids.

In other words, “Ye shall be as gods.”
This is not an example of what’s rational, but rather beguilement.

When I was a child, it was commonly accepted that death is a natural part of life. Nowadays people are addicted to the slow kill, eating toxic foods and taking poisonous pharmaceuticals. As a result, their health vanishes and they grasp at ever increasing amounts of drugs and medical interventions in order to stay alive, no longer willing to accept that there comes a time when each one of us must die.

Thus, they become ripe for even further deception. Accept this implant and you will live much longer. You will know a new level of good health and vitality. Accept these changes to your DNA and you will live forever. “Ye shall not surely die.”
*Beware*
“In those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”
As I see it, it’s more rational to not allow my body to be invaded by the devices of these trickster technocrats.

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Killing the Messenger

bidenTouchesKids
bidenTouchesKids

Messenger or not, you don’t go after peoples kids. That’s a good way to find out just how uncivilized someone can get.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

Hmmm…you should see how many kids got vaxxed at school clinics. So far, all parents have remained “civilized”.

Mr Puller

Same with vaccine passports -before you worry about tracking anything, get all of the narcotic use out of society worldwide and highlight visibly all those who’ve ever used it. That means tracking chip announces to all that you’ve been a recreational user of mind-altering dangerous narcotics, forever, even long after you’re dead to cemetery visitors

Mr Puller

Klaus Schwab retreat from follicular drug test like Dracula from a crucifix hahahahahaha

Mr Puller

Kane sucks elephant nuts

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