Name: Biochipping: Beyond Human
Uploaded: 2019-01-04
Duration: 5 min 58 s
Description: Jowan Österlund, founder and CEO of Biohax International, believes that microchipping can revolutionize the way people interact with the world.

My name is Jowan �� sterlund. I'm the founder and CEO of Biohax International. Biohax International is basically providing an ID platform all on a ultra secure blockchain platform, combined with an embedded microchip. We're providing the strongest and coolest identity platform. To date. I've just always been really fascinated by technological integration in the body, and kind of the, just the symbiosis between technology and humans. We've been doing it since the 60's. The pacemaker kinda gets you up to status quo if you're broken. Moving on from not broken, to just a little bit more effective, Use tech, instead of building everything on the outside. Just you know tweak it a bit and make yourself, improve yourself. My first clients was one of my best friends Magnus. He is a senior solutions architect at Red Hat. The first thing we did was he wrote and passed a text to his chip, and I put a call trigger on mine. So whenever I put my phone on my arm, it would call my wife. Sort of a crowd pleaser. [ LAUGH ] The entire vision of sovereign identity and Putting this in a blockchain protecting data and it wasn't there. It was more of a novelty kind of project, thinking this is gonna be awesome. As I see it, the chip that I implanted today, this is just an extremely convenient way to get access to your wallet. To have an implant in your hand or where you wanna place it is just the smoothest way to avoid having cards or using your phone etc. RF ID or radio frequency identification has a standard that's called NFC so near field commuinication. Near- field communication, as when you kinda tap a card. Some countries in Europe are ahead of others, but the infrastructure's already there. So bus transportation, we already have NFC chips in all the passports, a all the IDs. We're moving toward NFCs in driver's licenses. The most common fears from the technology would be that it's a tracking device. Or it's a control device. I mean, I'd say it's the direct opposite. This is the one thing that can get you and complete control of your digital identity. And you can manage the entire preference to anything you like. The reason it cannot track you Is because it's passive, so it never emits anything until you choose to use it in very, very, very close proximity to a working device. The system needs to know that you've chosen to have this token represent you instead of a plastic card or a key fob, or a key, or whatever. We're not gonna know anything about the data cuz we don't govern the blockchain. We don't decide We can't control it. All we ever going to know is the amount of data that's circulating so you can put the right resources in the right place. If you start to cheap people, I can do a little with that with Pets and of course it could be offensive but you know I'm doing this on a voluntarily basis. I share the information that I want to share. I could say that this technology can be used in a variety of different applications. But right now the most [ UNKNOWN ] thing is just use it to open the office. If you travel with the state owned railway you can have your priority card in your hands. You just use your chip instead. And as [ UNKNOWN ] is getting more commonplace But there's still the over my dead body, big brother, I would never let my employer chip me. It's not the employer chipping you. It's you telling the employer to get up to speed and integrate this. Disucssing the RSA252 encryptation layers blah, blah, blah. That doesn't mean anything to people. But showing that you can do something with a chip in your hand, that really wows people. So I think that is one of the good things. Being an ambassador, so to speak. We could sign up, 50 people basically in a couple of weeks, and have them ready in January to start going wild. If we just put a couple hundred grand behind a marketing campaign, we would have 100, 000 users within a year. But the thing is right now, there's no regulation protecting the user. So I think it's up to us to kind of make it Robust and safe for everyone before letting it become huge. I'm using almost 20 years of professional body piercing and know the insights from that industry to make this as foolproof as possible. In 20 years, it's going to be defacto. It's going to be standard. There's going to be talk Not if you gotta buy a chip, rather what type of chip you're getting, different styles of clothing rather than do you have a chip. What chip do you have? [ MUSIC ] So next design was gonna be s for small And just way more effective and secure encoder and connected to crypto fiat payments and EID, it's gonna be awesome. You can feel like you have some, Something is not what it used to be. But then in a day I won't feel anything. So it's just pure fun. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

Biochipping: Beyond Human

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Jowan Österlund, founder and CEO of Biohax International, believes that microchipping can revolutionize the way people interact with the world.