End-of-worlders fear not: VeriChips face serious obstacles

The frenetic discourse surrounding Applied Technologie's VeriChip is undoubtable.  However, the recently-approved under-your-skin ID chip technology faces some seemingly insurmountable obstacles to its success.  Consider this: in order for VeriChip to work, a scanner must be present to read the chip.  This assumes that every single hospital or police station will have a scanner.  While Applied Digital don't seem to want to discuss that, saying they're donating a few hundred scanners to hospitals around the US, they continue to paint visions of mentally-challenged individuals who will never be lost.  There also just happens to be another company called Digital Angel who actually own the technology -
they're just licensing it to Applied Digital until 2013.  Armageddon talk aside, it looks as though it will be a long time before we see anything resembling the world Applied Technology sees.