{"id":80448,"date":"2018-07-07T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-reason-thousands-of-swedish-people-are-inserting-microchips-into-themselves"},"modified":"2018-07-07T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T19:22:40","slug":"the-reason-thousands-of-swedish-people-are-inserting-microchips-into-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-reason-thousands-of-swedish-people-are-inserting-microchips-into-themselves","title":{"rendered":"The reason thousands of Swedish people are inserting microchips into themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RSxfMYnah4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in Sweden <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sweden-microchip-trend\/\">have inserted microchips<\/a>, which can function as contactless credit cards, key cards, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/har-skjuts-tagbiljetten-in-under-huden\">rail cards<\/a>, into their bodies. Once the chip is underneath your skin, there is no longer any need to worry about misplacing a card or carrying a heavy wallet. But for many people, the idea of carrying a microchip in their body feels more dystopian than practical.<\/p>\n<p>Some have suggested that Sweden\u2019s strong welfare state may be the cause of this recent trend. But actually, the factors behind why roughly 3,500 Swedes have had microchips implanted in them are more complex than you might expect. This phenomenon reflects Sweden\u2019s unique biohacking scene. If you look underneath the surface, Sweden\u2019s love affair with all things digital goes much deeper than these microchips.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1313537\/biohacking-in-sweden-why-thousands-are-inserting-microchips-into-themselves\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1313537\/biohacking-in-sweden-why-thousands-ar...hemselves\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people in Sweden have inserted microchips, which can function as contactless credit cards, key cards, and even rail cards, into their bodies. Once the chip is underneath your skin, there is no longer any need to worry about misplacing a card or carrying a heavy wallet. But for many people, the idea of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80448","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}