Thoughts on the future of NFC chips implanted under the skin.
I recently came across a small TJournal interview with one of the first people to sew an NFC chip into their hand. Initially, the article surprised me (How is that? Why ?!), then horror (it's terribly painful and unpleasant), and some time later I began to think about the good moments of such implants.
At the moment, with NFC, you can do not so many operations in your daily life. Of course, payment by card using PayPass is already available, it is possible to record tickets and go to the metro, you can even write down the key code of your hotel room on a chip and open the door by simply putting your hand on the lock. However, all these are drops in the ocean, and that is why now such a practice is completely uncommon.
Now let's imagine that embedding NFC chips under the skin has become a widespread practice and all newborns already have such a chip from the first months. What use cases do you think would appear?
The first thing that comes to my mind is basic information about you: blood type, contact phone number in case of loss of consciousness, etc. This is especially true if a small child is lost. They put the terminal on his hand and immediately dialed his mother.
The second scenario is writing personal documents to the chip. We came to receive our package – they put their wrist to the reader and took the box. We came to the clinic, and your compulsory medical insurance policy was automatically identified. Sit down in a restaurant or shop for liquor and the salesperson can immediately see if you are 18 years old.
The third option is payment using the same PayPass. You may have a card pulled out of your pocket, but it is unlikely that someone wants to cut off your hand to gain access to finance.
Student cards, travel passes and much more – all this would lie in a small chip sewn into the hand.
Of course, I understand that for many of you my thoughts sound about as crazy as the very news that someone is already using such chips now, but I ask you not to take the above as agitation for such a decision. In fact, I believe that for most of the scenarios described above, a simple plastic card will suffice, and to switch to such chips, you need some particularly cool use case. It hasn’t crossed my mind yet, do you? What functionality would make you plant a small NFC chip under your skin?