6 Minutes English - Human microchips

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Now Herry, do you have many passwords? Password, you mean a  the set of words, and numbers which I keep secret and allow me to access information. Yes I do actually. I have got few of for my computer and different websites I used, then there are my cards, credit card, debate debit card. And there is one line of for my id here. at THe BBC. T

OK, I get the idea. here  there are too many, on aren't there.

Oh yes! Sometimes I struggled to remember the mode. them all. And where we are advised to visa learned learn them by heart, in other words, to have they have to memorized and not with them write down. It is for the security reason. If you wirte it down and lost the pen you wrote the memo, and theer will not be secret anyway, will they. Now, how would you like to access the thing with only the passowrd of the card. yes, that will be brillant. In this program, I am going to tell you about the future realistic commerical building in  XXXX in Sweden and you do not have to remember any passowrd, you don't carry any id card. And in some cases, you don't even need carry money to pay for your coffee. That is XXXX, by magic. No, by inserting a microchip under the skin of your hand. A microchip is a very samll device with electric circuit which can do particular things. In this case, the micorchip are talking about can identify you. Well, I am not sure I will like a microchip in circuit in my skin. No, me neither in it. It's interesting, is it thought. Before I tell you about the experiment, let go for a quizz question. It all talk about the password. Security from splahed data pusblished annually report about the weakest passowrds people used. Well, which is the most common passwords used in 2014. Was it (a) abc123 (b) the number of 123456 (3) the word trust no followed by the number 1. I mean to go for (c) trust no for number 1. Because actually see everyone, I never hurdle off even know it's very obvious. Well all will be revealed at the end of the program. Now we are talking about the increase need for ID and sciencity will werer more and more computers and you are learned some more related vocabularies. Tell us more about the building in Sweden, neil. You have the microchip put on in your skin, and what is it allowed you to do insdie the building. Let listen to the BBC technology report from XXXXXXXX, he went there for a visit. He uses a expression to say the technology is not working perfectly yet because it's brand new. Was it that a expression? The new office will soon host the shifting of 7 hundred entrepenreies and employees. And that ruby to get the chip if they wish. As well as I mean dwarfing allowing you to photo copyers and eventlly log on the computer or pay for food in the coffee. The technology is still have TV problems. I found it quite struggle to activate the photo copyer. And among people are working here, I found some enthusiasm but also caution. The expression is having TV problems. When a new project to device does not work perfectly, we said it had tv problems. The microchip allow worrier to make a photo copyer work by swapping his hand over the console. But it didn't work straight away. And it tell us some of the workers are reacting with caution to idea have microchip put under there skin. Caution mean being careful to avoid something dangerous or risky. They might be risky. But we might all using it all one day, who know. The XXXX thinks it might be a good thing. XXXX from a Swedish bio-hacking group thinks believe linking biology and electronic device can make us daily life better. But he is concerned about people's freedom. And what if a government or a big coporation once to use this technology in the future. What does the XXX wants be able to do if that happen. A chip, a world, is a verb. we are early adapted this technology, we experience with it, we learn it, how it works, because there might be a day the text man or the big corporate will come to us and say, "he, try this chip, try this inplant" And then we are able to question them their proposals. He wants to question that proposals. It means if express down about the proposal and intentions. You know what, Neil. I Robert had my password. Well talking about password, let's go back to my quizz question. I asked you what is the weakest password people use according to 2015 report by the online security frim, splash data.

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