Sweden falls in love with the Cashless, Microchip Implant future - Vice News
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Walk through Sweden’s bustling capital and you’ll find abandoned cash machines, card-only parking meters and market vendors who only accept mobile payments. “Ninety-seven percent of the transactions
are done without bills,” Anders Ygeman, Sweden’s Minister for Energy and Digital Development told VICE News.
Known globally for its welfare system, the Scandinavian country of 10 million has been embracing new technologies for decades - from tax subsidies for home computers in the 90’s, to mobile technology infrastructure. The country is nearing complete digitization of both public and private sectors, and has now its sight set on artificial intelligence all with the goal of making life more convenient, efficient and equitable for its citizens.
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A human microchip implant is typically an identifying integrated circuit device or RFID transponder encased in silicate glass. This is implanted in
the body of a human being. This type of subdermal implant usually contains a unique ID number that can be linked to information contained in an external database, such as personal identification, law enforcement, medical history, medications, allergies, and contact information.
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A cashless society describes an economic state whereby financial transactions are not conducted with money in the form of physical banknotes or coins
Transactions are through the transfer of digital information (usually an electronic representation of money) between the transacting parties. Cashless societies have existed from the time when human society came into existence, based on barter and other methods of exchange, and cashless transactions have also become possible in modern times using digital currencies such as bitcoin.