No, I meant people. There are people who have been chipped and boasting about it on YouTube.

Hi I'm from Sweden.

You shouldn't believe everything they say on YouTube.

Also, the Bible is mostly lies, don't trust that either.

I'm sure some idiot put a dog microchip in their hand for shits and giggles, but so what? Their hand their choice.

These things start out as voluntary and then you find it difficult to function without it. My local bank is always busy, but there is a bank employee nagging everyone to use online banking. We're lucky it is still open, because every bank is shutting branches. They close branches and make them inconvenient to use, and then say the public want it. Yes, some do, but not everyone does and some want both options.

Similar scenario here. The old boiling a frog scenario. Some company trying to persuade its employees to get microchipped. Also other interests trying to push it. The dog thing is not unconnected, even with that, doing it to pets is partly a soft sell to saying humans can get one too. It has been normalised in science fiction films for decades.

"Their hand, their choice" turns into "they got a microchip, and why don't you?" into "everyone's got a microchip, why don't you?" and then "why the hell don't you have a microchip?" and eventually legal consequences for not having one. Of course microchips are only one possibility for tagging people... And the idea won't go away.

https://www.newsweek.com/people-get-microchips-implanted-tha...

Read some later articles. The first guy who did this was maybe that magician from Missouri, or at least one of the first ones (there aren't many). And it's turned out to be a useless gimmick, that magician's implant is currently inoperative. Forgot a password for re-programming it, or some such.

Mandatory microchipping people is firmly in sci-fi land, and, as many other things first tried out in sci-fi land it's not something particularly relevant for a very long time, I suspect. It's not very useful, to start with (compared to what we use already).

Online banking vs physical buildings.. that's a purely economic issue, and can't be compared to something like chipping.

Dogs and cats are microchipped because they can't talk, and for other non-human reasons.