Personal Narrative: Microchip Identity

Microchip Identity
Secretary- “Bridgett Castaway.”
Standing up Bridgett walks over to the nurse heading back to the doctor’s office. The nurse takes Bridgett into the first office on the right. The walls are painted a pasty of white, where posters hang on the wall talking about the microchip implant. Bridgett sits on the bed in the middle of the room nervously looking around at the poster. The nurse touches her shoulder, giving her a smile.
Secretary- “It’s all right. This process has been done over a thousand times by Dr. Anderson. You have nothing to worry about. It might be a new microchip but it’s the same as it was with all the other microchips. You’ll be in good hands.”
Bridgett- “I know, thank you.”
As Bridgett finishes talking

there’s a knock on the door as the Dr. steps in, smiling his warm and energetic smile.
Dr. Anderson- Bridgett dear, long time no see. How have you been feeling?
Bridgett- “Just fine.”
Dr. Anderson- “That’s great. Know Bridgett I know you have gone through all the paper work and filing and everything. Are you ready to have your new Id?”
Bridgett- “Yes.”
Dr. Anderson turns towards his desk opening the draw. He pulls out a needle applicator and slides a microchip, the size of a grain of rice, into the applicator. As Dr. Anderson turns back towards Bridgett he states, “Know Bridgett, you will feel a slight poke just like if you were getting a vaccine and then it will be all over.” Dr. Anderson takes Bridgett’s hand and slowly slides the needle in Bridgett’s hand, in-between her thumb and forefinger.
Dr. Anderson- “Sara please get the next patient.”
Bridgett is one of the first in ten Humans to get this new and improve microchip. This microchip will be her new identity and come to rule her life. Without it she will not be able to do anything, and with it she will be able to do everything. This new microchip will be her new form of life. Her identity and all the information that she will need to live. With a swipe of her hand Bridgett will be able to open her front door, start her car, get into an airport and aboard a plain, and pay bills. Although this will not the first microchip that is to be created, in fact Bridgett might be the first human to get this new and fully improved microchip, but she was not the first human to ever have a microchip.
Microchips began a long time ago, in the beginning of a new and great way to track down lost and stolen animals. This has been using microchips to track cats and dogs and all sorts of animals for decades. Some of these micro-chips can actually track the animal if they get lost. While the other kind of microchip that they use has an id number on the micro-chip that can be scanned to see the number for identification on the animals. While this was the first use of microchips and the start of what they were to become, it gained knowledge over the years and scientist has made it to where microchips could have many more uses and began using them within humans.
Slowly, as more research has been done over time they start to begin to use microchips within humans. Kevin Warlick, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Coventry University who was the first human to have gotten a NXT microchip in 1998 he states “Once inserted, my device switched on lights for me, opened doors and said “Hello” when I entered my building — each time, only because it recognised the code from my implant” (The pros4). Implanting microchips into humans has begun. These microchips vary in many things that they can do from being an id into certain places, to being able to using it as a credit card, or starting a vehicle. They are already being used as a form of identity and to do many tasks at large. Only in time will it become a national sensation and come to be that everyone must have one. When this happens everyday life events, will be taken to the next era and the microchips within the people will be the only way. While the longer Microchips are around, the more advance, they become and the more they can do. Sooner or later microchips are not going to just be opening people’s doors or being their id to get into certain clubs. Microchips will be a person’s new form of identity.
In the near future microchips will be the only kind of identity that society will have.

- In the Article “Will Microchip Implants in Humans Become Mandatory?” it states “[young adults/teens] will leap to be chipped just as they snatch up the latest smart phone. And not only will the technology be convenient, but it will lend an illusion of power. With just a wave of your hands doors will open for you --- literally and figuratively” (Duke3). In the future Microchips will be the new smart phone. This microchip will be the way that they are identified, pay for bills, open doors, and do anything that is required to do in everyday life. Doors will be unlocked by using the microchip and a scanner within the door that can sense the microchips that are registered within the door to let them enter. Doctors will be able to access all medical records by a scan of the microchip. All bills and clubs and everything will be run by the microchip to the point that it will be a requirement for everyone to have a microchip implanted into their body. In the same article it also states “In the future, the most obvious pro, of an implant is that it could be used as an extra means of identification – particularly in passports. If it meant that long passport queues could be by-passed, I believe many people would have such an implant as soon as possible” (Duke3). With the use of a microchip as an identity and use to use all things, it would be very time saving. As well as it will be able to make everyday life just that much easier. While many people are for the microchip identity, there are many others that are leery and are against this microchip idea

completely.
While many people are for it many are against it. In the article “Pros and Cons of inserting a Smart Microchip Into Your Own Body |Vice| United States” Richard Wordsworth, who is finishing his MA in Bioethics and Society at King’s College London; where he researches human enhancement and bioterrorism, he states “My smart phone is already effectively a wireless hip implant, and apps for unlocking my house, making contactless payments and other FRID applications already exist” (The Pros2). He believes that a smart phone dies the exact same job as the Micro-chip would be able to do. He also states “The only thing a smartphone-a-like implant adds (for now) is risk” (The Pros2). RFID stands for “the radio frequency identification (1). Although there are risks within the idea of Microchipping it still is a great idea, and a way to make things easier within the future for the human race.
With everything that we do there is risks and even though there are risks with the micro-chip the advantages of the micro-chip over weigh the cons. In the article “Will Microchip Implants in Humans Become Mandatory?” it quotes Dr. Mark Gasson of the UK’s University of Reading, who was the world’s first human to be infected with a computer virus due to the micro-chip, “It has the potential to change the very essence of what it is to be human” (Duke2). Even though he has been infected by a virus due to the micro-chip he stands behind the micro-chip and support what it stands for and what he believes that it will become.
In the future of humans’ lives the microchip will be the only way that we will define who we are. The Ultimate microchip will be created and it will be power to what society does. Everyone will want this microchip because of the “illusion” of power that it will proved to the human race. To people, the microchip will be a new beginning to a new time, and era. An era where the human race will be at the ultimate level of technology.