Next Evolution of Humankind…Humans evolving into HUMANOIDS.

My phone is ringing, I can’t find it. Has anyone seen my phone?

I can’t locate my file, which I worked on last month, where do I  search?

Where are my medical files? What was my last blood report?

My battery just died on me…aah!

Does this sound familiar? Yes, we all have gone through this and still do, but behold, all this is going to soon change;

change which is inevitable,

change which is happening and we don’t even realise it,

change which is going to make us live like nothing what it was 20-years from now or even current.

This is going to sound a lot more like one of those Sci-Fi movies, but this is going to be a reality of our lives. This is already happening, and we don’t know about it. Let me try and connect the dots, more like arranging the blocks of a jigsaw puzzle.

We all have heard of Nano Technology, few might be aware of it being used in multiple sectors, more in medical and bio-tech sectors. In the last few decades, there have been lot of advancements in this technology, found use in many applications, which are still being explored. A very important and emerging area of nano technology are the nano-bio sensors and biochips, which have numerous applications in nanomedicine in the coming future.

Bit of technical stuff here to explain what and where this is being used, which is helpful to life on Earth, before I explain how this is going to be misused.

In molecular biology, biochips are essentially miniaturized laboratories that can perform hundreds or thousands of biochemical reactions simultaneous. They help in genome (Genes) study, which generates huge amounts of information from each individuals’ genomes. A new generation of programmable diagnostic devices are being made now, called ‘programmable nano-bio-chip’, which helps in decoding this information and will potentially bridge the significant scientific, technology and clinical gaps through the creation of a diagnostic platform to measure the molecules of our life.

Some of the applications where this study would help are disease diagnosis and prognosis for areas including cancer, heart disease and HIV.

Biochips applications are widespread across the fields of biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacogenemics, proteology, clinical pathology and DNA analysis. Today, there are three main types of biochips that are used;

1. Lab-on-a-chip 

2. DNA chips 

3. Protein chips.

Seeing successful clinical trials and potential of these biochips, a new parallel

use of these biochips has been explored and these are being called HUMAN MICROCHIP. These are implanted in the upper layer of our skin (epidermis). These human microchips are integrated circuit (IC) devices (what we see in practically all electronic devices like music systems, computers, etc.) or RFID transponder encased in a silicate glass and implanted in the body of a human being. This type of subdermal implant usually contains a unique ID number that can be linked to information contained in an external database, such as personal identification, government documents, medical history, medications, allergies, and contact information.

Besides storing information about an individual, what else will Human Microchipping do, how will it change our lives?

Well it is going to rock our skin’s world…quite literally.

With these embedded or implanted chips, we soon would be able to open our front door, start our car (recall this ardent Tesla car fan who implanted her Tesla car keys in her forearm), and provide our entire medical history. Well it can also be used in corporate offices for functions like HR, attendance, to gain file access, etc.  This is going to be our epidermis as we have never (ever) imagined.

Am quite sure that technology will further evolve and instead of implanting these chips, soon we will have these RFID chips like a tattoo or tattoo design implanted on the epidermis of our skin, using advanced mesh technology. Scary? Well we ought to me right now, but this soon will become a norm or part of our life system.

Let’s go few steps back and think how and when did all this start. The signs have been there for a while, it’s just that we never noticed. It is our fascination to miniaturize everything; Phones went from being static and on table to cordless to fitting in our pocket. Computers went from desks to laps to palms. Headphones went from over the ear to inside the ear. If there’s a trend in technology, it is this: Go small. Smaller still. Even smaller than that, till devices may start disappearing altogether and technology will literally be part of our skin, which we are today calling as “Wearable Technology”. This wearable technology will become “Implanted Technology”.

Let me draw your attention to one more thing, which we have already started using, but yet again, we have not connected the dots. These microchips, well your pet probably already has one, but right now this probably is being used for quite different applications for your pet than it would for humans. Pets’ microchips help locate them if they get lost. For us, microchips will make life more convenient or otherwise, you decide, while I try to explain what future holds for us.

These microchips would not be restricted to just implants but will get deeper till we don’t have physical hardware’s or devices or let’s say we humans become devices like HUMANOIDS.

So how will all this work or come together. Let’s deep dive a bit here. There will be technological advancements in eye lens, which will have multi-functions; serve as screens and cameras. Micro earphones would be implanted inside our ears, this is already being used to help people who are unable to hear properly. Microchip implanted in our skin which will be like a computer in a chip. Now what will this do? To begin with, you will never say any of those statements, which is mentioned at the start of this article. How will this happen, let me explain.

all are moving everything into the cloud and we are no longer dependent on a particular device or hardware. Like our emails are not restricted to any one computer, we can access our emails from any device, anywhere, anytime. Our documents, photos and other multimedia files too are being saved on cloud and we are no longer being restricted to a particular device. This has happened slowly but steadily and consumers without being aware of, has moved into this space. So, what’s next? We would no longer need these heavy and expensive hardware’s like computers, laptops, phones. Also, we would no longer need those large storage and storage devices because all that we wish to save, all that can be saved, all that needs to be saved, will be saved on cloud and everything will be integrated. Once this happens and with these biochips being implanted in our body / skin, we would carry our data with us all the time. Further, thanks to us using Intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Alexa’s of the world, we are using voice commands to access data and information. And of course all this would be rendered useless if we do not have the backbone called internet; super fast and seamless internet and lo-behold we are about to enter the world of 5G mobile network technology, which will make us always connected.

These Biochips will use our voice commands and do the work of the devices, which we currently use, but without them. Example, to make a phone call, we will use our voice command (which few of us are doing right now) and the biochip will make an audio or video call and screen will get projected in air in front of us through the eye lens which we are wearing (like contact lens which we wear right now). These projected screens will be viewed privately by us or by others for public viewing by providing a unique code. Audio will be directly in our ears with micro earphones implanted in our ears. Similarly, documents will be projected in air using our eye lens and we shall type through air-keyboard or through voice commands.

Everything will soon get converted into electronic and no paper would be used, again something that has already started; e-Passport, E-money, E-Wallets, E-credit cards, Online Banking, Aadhaar and Pan are numbers, E-License, etc. All our documents, banking, transactions, etc will be electronic and all these would be connected through a single identity, which will be a number. We all would become a number and lose our name as an identity. We all have slowly been moving towards this unknowingly; to get a new mobile number, we have to share our Aadhaar number, or PAN, or Passport etc, to open a bank account, its similar, for any government form or work where identification is required, we provide these documents or numbers. All these are getting interlinked, hence leading to each individual being associated with one single number as identity in the government records. Now if someone who has access to these records, changes your name against this associated number, there will be no proof or document for you to prove otherwise, which we can right now.

And then we have this whole thing called Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, which is threatening the very intelligence of humans. So now if we connect all the blocks of this big jigsaw, the picture which is getting formed is that of a human which is not a human in traditional form. We would not only compete with fellow humans, but with these artificial humans too.

Technology, which was introduced to be an enabler for humans/mankind, will enslave us soon. We would become technology. Are we ready for this? Well there is no choice, as this is the next evolution of humankind…humans evolving into humanoids.

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