RFID tag in me, me in the database for recovering lost animals (1997)

(This is about RFID but not about Japan or Asia. Nevertheless, I couldn't help blogging this, under the newly added category "world.")

WMMNA reported on Time Capsule, Eduardo Kac's project in 1997.

Eduardo Kac received the Arco-Beep award for electronic art for Time Capsule. In 1997, the artist inserted a microchip with an identification number into his ankle in front of photographs taken of family members during the 1930's in Europe. He then registered himself via the Web in a database designed for identification and recovery of lost animals, making it the first instance of a human being added to the database.

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