6 Apocalyptic Technologies that Most People Have Not Even Heard About Yet

Michael Snyder
The Truth
July 27, 2013

Are you ready for the future?  We live at a time when technology is advancing at an exponential pace.  Today, scientists are rapidly developing bizarre new technologies that most science fiction writers never even would have dreamed of a couple decades ago.  For example, would you be willing to get rid of your bank card and start paying for things with only your face?  Would you be willing to allow a technology company to put one large computer chip or thousands of really, really small ones (“neural dust”) into your brain?  These are some of the technologies that are coming.  Our world is changing at an absolutely mind blowing rate, and to be honest none of us really knows what our world is going to look like a decade from now.  Remember, ten years ago Facebook did not exist and five years ago the iPad did not exist.  Our planet is fundamentally being transformed, and our scientists are rapidly turning the “impossible” into the possible.  The following are 6 apocalyptic technologies that most people have not even heard about yet…

#1 Facial Recognition Software That Replaces Bank Cards

Will people soon pay for things by having their faces scanned at the checkout counter?  That may sound absurd, but according to the Daily Mail a company from Finland has already launched this technology…

Bank cards are already being replaced by phones and wristbands that have payment technology built-in but the latest threat to the lowly plastic in your pocket could be your face.

A Finnish startup called Uniqul has launched what it calls the first ever payment platform based on facial recognition.

The system doesn’t require a wallet, bank card or phone – instead a camera is positioned at the checkout and takes a photo of a shopper’s face when they are ready to pay.

It then scans a database for the face and matches it to stored payment details in order to complete the transaction.

#2 Facial Recognition Technology Already Being Used In Stores And In Digital Advertising Displays

Do you remember the billboards in the movie “Minority Report” that used facial recognition technology to scan faces and produce appropriate ads?  Personally, I never thought that I would see such a thing in my lifetime, but the truth is that a company called Amscreen already has over 6,000 digital screens that use this kind of technology.  In fact, their advertising screens are already being viewed by approximately 50 million people…

Advertising network Amscreen recently launched a unique face-detection technology, originally developed by automated audience measurement firm Quividi.

Cameras have been installed in Amscreen’s digital advertising displays that can scan a person’s face and determine their gender, age, date, time and volume of the viewers.

This is so adverts are served to the most appropriate audience.

Amscreen already has over 6,000 digital screens seen by a weekly audience of over 50 million people.

And according to NPR, this kind of facial recognition technology is now being used in some retail stores to identify VIPs…

This lack of recognition is precisely what the VIP-identification technology designed by is supposed to prevent.

The U.K.-based company already supplies similar software to security services to help identify terrorists and criminals. The ID technology works by analyzing footage of people’s faces as they walk through a door, taking measurements to create a numerical code known as a “face template,” and checking it against a database.

In the retail setting, the database of customers’ faces is comprised of celebrities and valued customers, according to London’s . If a face is a match, the program sends an alert to staff via computer, iPad or smartphone, providing details like dress size, favorite buys or shopping history.

#3 Google Wants To Put A Chip In Our Brains?

Would you allow a technology company to put a chip in your brain?

According to a recent article in a major UK newspaper, apparently this is exactly what executives at Google believe will happen someday…

It began, just 15 years ago, as a service that enabled you to type a request into a personal computer and be given links to associated websites. Things have rather moved on. Soon Google hopes to have the ubiquitous presence of a personal assistant that never stops working, capable of conversing naturally in any language. Ultimately, as Page and co-founder Sergey Brin have asserted, the goal is to insert a chip inside your head for the most effortless search engine imaginable.

In fact, on a recent visit to Google the reporter writing the article quoted above was told the following by Google Vice President of Search Ben Gomes…

Where will it end? Gomes agrees that a chip embedded in the brain is far from a sci-fi fantasy. “Already people are beginning to experiment with handicapped people for manoeuvring their wheelchairs,” he says. “They are getting a few senses of direction with the wheelchair but getting from there to actual words is a long ways off. We have to do this in the brain a lot better to make that interaction possible. We have impatience for that to happen but the pieces of technology have to develop.”

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