But the sound quality of cochlear implants is mediocre at best, and they couldn't readily be used to transmit the voices some implant victims claim to hear. Equally important, today's neural implants still have to be connected to an external signal processor. If you wake up with unexplained wires trailing out of your body or find a little computer strapped to your waist, you would be right to be suspicious. Otherwise don't fret. Right now it's used to identify pets and farm animals, but technology paranoids foresee a day when they'll start sticking ID microchips into people.
Worse things await.
Soon they'll want to stick them into your car. As you drove around, sensors in the pavement would detect a microchip built into your vehicle. A central computer would tally your mileage and bill you annually for road usage, with maybe a surcharge tacked on if you traveled the most congested roads during rush hour. A lot of things sound crazy. Next thing you know they're elected to Congress.