{"id":71305,"date":"2017-07-26T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T01:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says"},"modified":"2017-07-26T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T01:42:43","slug":"installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says","title":{"rendered":"Installing microchips in employees is \u2018the right thing to do,\u2019 CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forget swiping a credit card or badge to buy food at work. One Wisconsin-based tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n<p>Three Square Market will be the fir st firm in the U.S. to use the device, which was approved by the FDA in 2004, CEO Todd Westby told CNBC on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it\u2019s the right thing to do for advancing innovation just like the driverless car basically did in recent months,\u201d he said in an interview with \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/closing-bell\/\">Closing Bell.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/24\/installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says.html?__source=Facebook\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/07\/24\/installing-microchips-in-empl...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget swiping a credit card or badge to buy food at work. One Wisconsin-based tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees\u2019 hands. Three Square Market will be the fir st firm in the U.S. to use the device, which was approved by the FDA in 2004, CEO Todd Westby told CNBC [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}