{"id":57731,"date":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardvanhooijdonk.com\/blog\/bnr-mindshift-chips-in-your-body-sure-why-not\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:11:14","slug":"bnr-mindshift-chips-in-your-body-sure-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com\/en\/bnr-mindshift-chips-in-your-body-sure-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"BNR MINDSHIFT | Chips in your body – sure, why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gradually, everything around us is getting connected to the Internet; smart factories, autonomous cars, smart toothbrushes, E-bikes, clothing and pacemakers. We call this ‘The Internet of Everything’, because we will connect almost anything to the increasingly faster internet. <\/strong>We can now switch on the smart lamp via our Smartphone. Or we can make our Tesla, which is parked in Rotterdam, honk while we enjoy a leisurely afternoon at a sidewalk cafe in New York.<\/p>\n

In the future, our smart fridge will notify our self-driving car<\/a> when our food runs out and the autonomous vehicle will then collect our groceries from the supermarket\u2019s pickup point. Of course, before that, our fridge has already checked in with our smart-pill to make sure we get the foods that are most healthy for us. Thanks to technology, we will see the emergence of a future of endless possibilities, making our lives a lot easier. As trend watcher and futurist I hold many talks about all these technologies at conferences around the world. But you can only really understand the real impact of it when you’re actually physically part of this connected world. So I decided to have some chips implanted in my body. The first one was a RFID chip. The video below shows how it was inserted under my skin.<\/p>\n