Human Microchipping, Past, Present, and ... Future? [Opinion]

I sat staring at the computer on February 6th, 2006, thinking about the press release I was about to send and the potential impact it could have on the human race. The human implantable microchip, I thought, is about to make a major leap forward in the consciousness of the human mind and will be talked about and debated at a whole new level. It started over a year earlier, with Internet research. I was looking for asset tracking and found a new product involving implantable microchips for security.