According to a recent Associated Press article, the state of Utah plans to introduce a driver's license sometime next year embedded with an 8-kilobit microchip. Police officers, by running the card through a reader, will be able to get the same type of information they now take down by hand. The chip may also be used, in the future, to store bank account information, medical records, government documents, hunting and fishing licenses and similar things. Because the card readers are not yet widespread, the license also will contain a bar code, which can be scanned. Terry Cook cites articles in several mainstream daily newspapers that have raised this possibility.
Martial law is declared.
People are told to remain calm and go about their business as usual. But things are not at all normal. The intellectuals are being taken from the university. Women are dismissed from their jobs, by order of the military. The fated year came and went, of course, without fulfillment of the author's fantasies.