Claim: Mondex is planning to replace money with biochips embedded in people’s heads and hands.
2004 saw the latest iteration of a form of conspiracy theory that attempts to tie automated systems related to financial transactions to the “mark of the beast” prophesied in Chapter 13 of the New Testament’s book of Revelation:
[The beast] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads.
And that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. In earlier days conspiratorial rumors linked this bit of scripture to the advent of bar codes on product packaging; now a much-circulated 18-slide PowerPoint presentation earnestly tries to associate it with Mondex, a brand of “smart card” technology, by misleadingly equating smart cards with implantable identification technology.
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