The New York Daily News reports: “Would you barcode your baby?

Microchip implants have become standard practice for our pets, but have been a tougher sell when it comes to the idea of putting them in people.

Science fiction author Elizabeth Moon last week rekindled the debate on whether it’s a good idea to ‘barcode’ infants at birth in an interview on a BBC radio program.

‘I would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached — a barcode if you will — an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals,’ she said on The Forum, a weekly show that features ‘a global thinking’ discussing a ‘radical, inspiring or controversial idea’ for 60 seconds .

Moon believes the tools most commonly used for surveillance and identification — like video cameras and DNA testing — are slow, costly and often ineffective.

In her opinion, human barcoding would save a lot of time and money.

The proposal isn’t too far-fetched – it is already technically possible to ‘barcode’ a human – but does it violate our rights to privacy?

Opponents argue that giving up anonymity would cultivate an ‘Orwellian’ society where all citizens can be tracked…” (This headline and study will soon occur – Revelation 13:15 – 18. The Popular Science magazine of January 2011 reports: “When researchers at IBM power up new supercomputer ‘Blue Waters’ it will perform 10 quadrillion calculations per second. That’s 10 followed by 15 zeros. Big Brother has arrived.)