You Will Be Microchipped

Parents worry about their little ones being abducted. Later they worry about their not-quite-so-little ones driving too fast and then stopping to hang with the wrong crowd. "Sandwich" generation parents also get to worry about elderly parents wandering off or injuring themselves. Microchips have been implanted in more than one million pets, and now humans may be next. While it may smack of Big Brother, people may soon be scanned like bread at the supermarket. Teens, too, can be "watched" using GPS technology as parents are alerted when junior exceeds the speed limit and/or goes to an unapproved location. There are infant protection systems - wearable RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags for mom and baby - designed to prevent infant abductions and inadvertent child mismatching. Parents can also find out everything their kids say and do online. One can track them by their cell phones, and read their text messages.