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Office puts chips under staff's skin bbc
Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.
Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.
That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.
On the day of the building's official opening, the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too.
The whole process is being organised by a Swedish bio-hacking group which was profiled by my colleague Jane Wakefield recently. One of its members, a rather fearsome looking tattooist, inserted my chip.
First, he massaged the skin between my thumb and index finger and rubbed in some disinfectant. The he told me to take a deep breath while he inserted the chip. There was a moment of pain - not much worse than any injection - and then he stuck a plaster over my hand.
Before trying my chip out, I wanted to know more about the thinking behind it. Hannes Sjoblad, whose electronic business card is on his own chip and can be accessed with a swipe of a smartphone, has the title chief disruption officer at the development. I asked him whether people really wanted to get this intimate with technology.
"We already interact with technology all the time," he told me. "Today it's a bit messy - we need pin codes and passwords. Wouldn't it be easy to just touch with your hand? That's really intuitive."
Q:
Do you think is a good idea that puts chips under staff's skin?
Will you try it? And the pros and cons of inserting a microchip into your own body?
Will microchip implants in humans become mandatory?
Could a chip inserting making life better?
Can we microchip our kids to prevent kidnapping?
Pros and cons of new technology?
賴桑的千年之約
The man who dedicates his life to growing trees taiwanfun.com
What would inspire someone to grow 200,000 trees?
What might cause someone to spend millions on trees over 30 years?
At the age of only 23, Lai Pei-yuan already had over a hundred million NT dollars worth of property but, by the time he had reached 30, he had started spending all his money on one thing--growing trees. Today almost 30 years later, he has grown over 200,000 trees on the slopes of Daxueshan (Great Snow Mountain). Lai says a lot of people take him for a fool, but he's grateful and sees tree-growing as his mission in life. "Growing trees is my belief," he says.
As the youngest child of a poor family, Lai recalls that when he was young, his whole family of nine had to stay in one small house. At the age of 14, he began working in his family's transportation company during an era when Taiwan's economy was booming. Back then. he would only rest three or four hours per day and almost took no days off. Thanks to his efforts, the company grew to over 1,500 semi-trailer trucks, 200 trailer heads and over 20,000 tires. This meant that, at its peak, the company was earning NT$300,000 per day.
From tycoon to forest manager
This was an era when a two-story house only cost NT$150,000. At the age of 23, Lai already owned property worth over NT$200,000 and, by the time he reached 30, the total value of his holdings was over NT$1 billion. Lai notes that when he was young he worked in many big central Taiwan companies and witnessed the rise and fall of various owners. This led him decide to choose another road in life with the aim of doing something significant and meaningful rather than just thinking about how to increase the numbers in his account book.
It's not unusual for a man who owns property worth over a billion dollars to buy nice things for himself and enjoy the good life. However, according to Lai, since leaving the army he has never spent over NT$300,000 in total. He has never even been to a karaoke. By contrast, he prefers living a life that is frugal and meaningful life over one where he "has nothing besides money". As part of this philosophy, he believes that growing trees creates good fortune, and he often cries out of pure joy when he observes the trees he has raised in the mountains.
Lai usually plants five-inch seedlings, with tree varieties including Formosan cypress, pines and camphor trees, all native plants. It has been over 20 years since he planted his first seedling and today everywhere one looks there are trees over 10 meters tall. He says he wants to buy as much land as possible for growing trees, noting that it's an amazing experience to turn a plot of unwanted land into a beautiful forest and watch each tree he has planted growing bigger and bigger.
Tree-growing a lifelong career
Lai hopes he can help protect the environment by growing trees and believes that it's an investment towards a better future. In the beginning, many people considered him a fool but, not caring what others thought, he stuck with his convictions. After a time, his family began helping him. His two sons and daughter now all go to Daxueshan to plant trees with him and his oldest son, Lai Chieng-chong, even opened a coffee shop named Coffee Tree in downtown Taichung to promote his father's ideals. The coffee served at Coffee Tree is from coffee trees the senior Lai planted in the mountains.
Q:
What would inspire someone to grow 200,000 trees?
Would you willing to spend millions on trees over 30 years?
Would you like to spend millions for a goal that good for people?
How to do something significant and making life meaningful?
How to enjoy a good life?
“Lai hopes he can help protect the environment by growing trees”
So in your opinion that how to protect the environment?
What do you think the coffee shops in Taiwan?
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