HELP! I’ve been implanted with a microchip…
Abstract: I have been studying non-medical implantable devices in humans since 1997. Over the last two decades I have received numerous emails from individuals who are adamant that they have been forcedly implanted with a microchip. Individuals believe their thoughts can be read, their movements can be tracked, and their bodily functions controlled, all through a tiny microchip implant that has purportedly been injected somewhere on their body, usually in their head, ear, groin, leg or hand. Chip implanted persons that go by various names including “the tortured” or “the targeted” allege they have been injected without their consent at the hands of a callous surgeon, violent partner, controlling employer, totalitarian government or defense force running experimental trials of behavioural “programming” and “control”. Descriptions of the alleged microchip that is purported to have been injected include: “a microchip”, “an RFID”, “nano implant”, “neural implant”, “smart dust” or “mote”. Of the few sufferers who refuse to take a simple x-ray but seek further medical attention from mental health professionals, great emphasis is placed on citing reports that usually depict non-medical applications of under the skin implantables as proof of their own body’s intrusion by a third party. Given the advancement of the new technologies, I am now fielding telephone calls from health practitioners who wish to know whether or not such forced implantation without the knowledge of the bearer is possible. It’s time we talk about what’s going on, and the potential for this kind of health condition to spiral out of control in the future.
Bio: Katina Michael is the Director of the Center for Engineering, Policy and Society at Arizona State University. She holds a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering. Katina has been studying non-medical applications of microchip implants since her undergraduate capstone project in 1994. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.
Overview
Victim Statements
Companies to Assist the Alleged Targeted
Antichipping Laws and Bills
Media
CIA
The Targeted Individual Group - Europe
Resellers
Science Fiction
Doctors
The Religious
Academics
Citation: Katina Michael, “HELP! I’ve been implanted with a microchip…”, CSPO: The Rightful Place of Science #2, 9-10 May 2019, https://sfis.asu.edu/news-events/events/cspo-20th
Program Details
9:00 - 9:10am
Welcome (Abbey)
David Guston, Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Dan Sarewitz, Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
9:10 - 10:10am
Rhythms, Algorithms, and Arrhythmia (Abbey)
Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society with the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
10:10 - 10:40am
Break and Explorations (Abbey Patio and break kiosk, Courtyard)
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
10:40- 11:40am
Blood on the Tweets: How to Have Knock-Down, Drag-Out Fights about Science, Technology and the Future in Social Media and Still Find Signs of Intelligent Life on the Internet (Abbey)
Charlie Oliver, CEO Tech 2025
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
11:40am - Noon
Migration and lunch buffet line (Abbey Patio)
Noon - 1:00pm
Plenary Talk - Escaping the Dystopia (Abbey)
Ramona Pringle, Associate Professor in the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University, and Director of The Innovation Studio
1:00 - 1:15pmMigration1:15 - 2:15pm
Concurrent Activities:
Keys and Clues: A Game for connecting ideas Part 1 (Dolores)
Walter Valdivia, Senior Policy Editor for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and JP Nelson, Doctoral Student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Internet: Taking it All Offline with SolarSPELL (Colonnade)
Laura Hosman, Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
2:15 - 2:20pmMigration2:20 - 3:05pm
Concurrent Sessions:
The Arcology Project (Cavetto)
Clark Miller, Professor, School of the Future of Innovation in Society
Rightsizing Science’s Rightful Place (Dolores)
(Dolores)Susan Fitzpatrick, President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
3:05 - 3:35pm
Break and Explorations (Abbey patio and break kiosk, Courtyard)
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
3:35 - 4:20pm
Concurrent Sessions:
HELP! I’ve been implanted with a microchip… (Dolores)
Katina Michael, Director of the Center for Engineering, Policy and Society at Arizona State University; Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
How Should Society Manage the Future of Science and Innovation? Let Women Decide (Colonnade)
Beth Raps
Acting Locally Is Like Looking Under The Streetlight: thoughts inspired by branded attire (Cavetto)
Lewis Gilbert
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
4:20 - 4:30pmMigration4:30 - 5:30pm
Concurrent Sessions:
Science Art: A Way for Science to be Heard in an Information Saturated World (Abbey)
Kiki Jenkins, Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Play-writing as Slow Science (Delores)
Gwen Ottinger, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Drexel University
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
5:30 - 6:30pmBreak
Zouk Dancing (Abbey Patio)
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
6:30 - 10:00pm
Dinner and Dancing (Palm Ballroom DEF)
Friday May 10, 2019
8:00 - 9:00amContinental breakfast (break kiosk, Courtyard)9:00 - 10:00am
Keynote Presentation (Abbey)
Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University and Co-Founder, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
10:00 - 10:30am
Break and Explorations (Abbey Patio and break kiosk, Courtyard)
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
10:30 - Noon
Concurrent Activities
Keys and Clues: A Game for connecting ideas Part 2 (Dolores)
Walter Valdivia, Senior Policy Editor for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and JP Nelson, Doctoral Student, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
AR @ ASU (Colonnade)
Robert LiKamWa
Informal Science Education Demos and Videos (Cavetto)
Jeannie Colton
Civic Smart Cities (Sand Lotus – 2nd floor)
John Harlow, Smart City Research Specialist at Engagement Lab @ Emerson College
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
Noon - 1:30pm
Lunch (Conference Dining Area)
Explorations (Abbey Patio)
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
1:30 - 2:30pm
Concurrent Sessions
The Political Economy of Publication: The Publication Industry Owns Us (Cavetto)
Mark Neff, Associate Professor of environmental policy at Western Washington University
Fight, Love, Wonder: Raising a Transgender Child (Colonnade)
Adam Briggle, Associate Professor in the Philosophy and Religion department at the University of North Texas
Making the apocalypse fun again: A how-to guide for surviving the zombie apocalypse with science (Dolores)
Athena Aktipis, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
2:30 - 3:00pm
Break and Explorations (Abbey Patio and break kiosk, Courtyard)
Sci-Fi Snug (Campanelli)
3:00 - 3:15pmGroup Photo (Center of Courtyard) 3:15 - 4:15pm
Keynote Presentation (Abbey)
DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), composer, multimedia artist and writer
4:15 - 5:00pm
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish (Abbey)
Dan Sarewitz, Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
David Guston, Founding Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society
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