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However, technology is changing so rapidly, that the magnetic strip has been rendered
obsolete by the ‘Smart Card,’ which has a 2 line display screen, yet is only slightly larger than a
credit card. Instead of a magnetic strip, it is imbedded with an integrated circuit chip for the
storage of information, and it can be updated each time the card is used. With this card, a person
could shop, bank, and receive social services; and it could be used to store their medical history,
Social Security records and other personal information. It eliminates credit card fraud because
there is no number on it. However, since the chip card costs between $20-$50 to produce, and the
magnetic strip only costs 60¢ to produce; and most electronic systems have already been set up
for the magnetic strip, it is unlikely that the industry will convert.
In the April, 1980 edition of Business Week, there was an advertisement for National Cash
Register, for the financial (cashless) terminals, which featured a card called the “Worldwide
Money Card” which they said will replace all the world’s currencies. Another advertisement in
the November 5, 1981 edition of the Wall Street Journal read: “A new banking era has begun
and Citibank invites you to be in the forefront ... A global system linking every major city in
America to a bank with a financial service network that circles the entire world.” Dr. Emil
Gaverluk (who has a doctorate in Educational Technology and is an expert in Communications
Science), of the Southwest Radio Church, said: “The next card beyond Visa’s stage will be a
universal card, and will probably be issued out of Europe. It will be issued to all industrialized
nations and they’ll tell you this is the best card you’ve ever had in your life ... the next stage after
that is the number on the forehead or hand.”
Paper currency and checks will be phased out in lieu of debit cards, and the plan seems to be
for debit cards to be converted to the International Card, as all the nations do away with their
monetary systems to do business through computers. But people will lose their card, or have it
stolen, or accidentally mutilate it. You have probably noticed that the magnetic strip on your
credit cards does not hold up well. The constant rubbing against each other, and against your
wallet, causes scratches and drop outs on the strips which can not be read by scanners. These
arguments will result in numbers being lasered directly on the body.
Professor B. A. Hodson, director of the Computer Center at the University of Manitoba, had
recommended an identifying mark to be put on the forehead of every person. The cover of the
September 20, 1973 issue of Senior Scholastics, a high school publication, showed a group of
kids with numbers tattooed on their foreheads, and the feature article was titled, “Public Needs
and Private Rights - Who Is Watching You?” An advertisement by the First Tennessee Bank,
showed a man with his bank number tattooed on his arm, implying that this was the only way to
remember your number.
Initially, a process had been developed to create a permanent non-toxic fluid that could be
invisibly tattooed on human flesh, until a particular light, such as infrared or ultraviolet, shown
on it. The process was tested by tattooing Social Security numbers on babies. In 1974, a
Washington State University professor, Dr. R. Keith Farrell, invented a laser gun, which he used
to number fish, which accomplished the task in less than a second. When asked if the gun could
be used to put numbers on people, he said: “It could indeed be used for such a purpose.” The
laser beam can not be felt, the number can not be seen with the naked eye, and it is as permanent
as your fingerprints. In the October, 1980 edition of Advertising Age magazine, TeleResearch
Item Movement, Inc. (TRIM) had a full page advertisement for their supermarket computer
scanner, which featured the picture of a man with a UPC symbol printed on his forehead. Dr.
Ray Brubaker wrote in his book, Is the Antichrist Now Here?: “In Cincinnati, Ohio, an
experiment was conducted in which there was affixed on the back of each hand a number that