666: Advancement in IT and Telecom Technology

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The concept of 666 from the technology point of view is simply advancement in IT and Telecom. Just as you can imagine the kind of houses we would be living in 50 years from now, the shape and kind of cars we will be driving, take a few seconds to imagine the shopping experience of 60 years from now. At the moment, you need to push your cart to the till when you are done shopping in a store. At checkout, you items are scanned one after the other, and then your card is inserted into a POS for payment, where the new technology (operational in the UK, and I believe the entire Europe and America as well, since May 2015) no longer requires you to enter a PIN.  Your card is simply scanned and payment for items purchased is taken from your account.

The current stage of this technology is to have a single number that will indentify you on the banking system. Rather than carry all your several cards made up of debit and credit cards from all your bank accounts, driver’s license, voters card, international passport, etc. a single card that links you to all these other cards would be all you need to carry. This single card becomes your global ID.  This is the idea of the BVN, a local concept by the CBN.  The BVN card links you to all your financial records in all the banks in Nigeria. Just by entering your BVN, the system will show your nakedness, in terms of your financial standing.

The next stage is to have a global version of the current central bank BVN. The banks will be able to take payments from any/all accounts linked to the chip on the card, such that instead of entering your multiple card information at different times, you simply insert this card at all times.  The only requirement would be to have completed a form earlier that tells the system the order and preference your various bank accounts should be checked for money removal.

Once that stage has been achieved, the next stage would be the introduction of a technology called RFID.  This technology is currently being developed in the lab.  When released, it will allow machines to wireless and remotely scan product barcodes, as well as your universal ID card without need to take items off the card or take wallet out of your pocket respectively. Come to think of it, the real thing important thing on your card, as far as the scanning machine is concerned, is the chip.  So, why cant this chip be reduced to a very tiny bio chip and then infused into just beneath the foreskin so there will be no excuse to deliberately lose it in order to avoid detection, or to impersonate another.  The most glaring place where all machines will easily see and scan the bio chip is the forehead. So, it will be inserted on the forehead.

Thereafter, there is no hiding place.  Wherever you are in the world, whatever you do, you are practically broadcasting yourself.  At that time, it will be no longer convenient for financial institutions to offer you credit facility to those who cannot be traced – those without the 666 mark.  Even mere shopping will become so cumbersome for anyone not carrying the 666 mark; after items are scanned as you roll your shopping trolley towards the door, the ‘theft alarm’ goes off because payment cannot be scanned off your forehead. While the 666 complaint people will be having access to all the good things because they have been tagged and can be tracked for payment wherever they are in the world, the non 666 compliant will have really tough time doing business in the ‘new’ world.

666 may not happen in this generation but it is sure around the corner.  If does not happen in our time, it will happen in our children’s time or our grand children’s time.  This is where the IT and Telecom technology of the future is taking us.

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