[monkeyshine]

There could be some benefit to the chips, on a volunteer basis. Maybe the chips could be used with pacemakers, to diagnose problems without having to go to the hospital, for example, or to jumpstart a stopped heart by remote control. But overall, I would never agree to any mandatory chip installation. If people want to put these things in their bodies, by all means go ahead.

The grey area I see is with children-- foolish parents will want to put a chip in their kids, so that they can track them down in cases of kidnapping, or to see if they are at the library or the arcade. This would be abusive in my view.

[Teacher317]

Have these morons never heard of ID bracelets? Put a chip in that, for crying out loud.

I can't wait for the lawsuits in ten years when these implants break, cause cancer, or react to some IV drug-users choice of 'stimulation'.

[GailA]

It may be voluntary today, BUT will it stay that way???????????

[Domestic Church]

"The grey area I see is with children"

It will become part of the standard procedures for newborns...after they get the apgar and blood work out of the way this will be a routine procedure. Initially they will ask for parental approval on some form but then state by state it will be mandated. Time to start pushing for legal exemption for religious or philosophical reasons NOW!