Name: Insights: Could Biochipping Catch On?
Uploaded: 2020-03-11
Duration: 6 min 2 s
Description: Jowan Österlund, founder and CEO of Biohax International, believes that microchipping can revolutionize the way people interact with the world. (January 2019)

[MUSIC PLAYING] JOWAN OSTERLUND: My name is Jowan Osterlund. 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 a 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 just the symbiosis between technology and humans. I mean, we've been doing it since the '60s. The pacemaker kind of get 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 tweak it a bit and make yourself, improve yourself. PEO STROMBERG: Yes. JOWAN OSTERLUND: Bag of tricks. My first client was one of my best friends, Magnus. He's a senior solution 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. [CHUCKLES] The entire vision of sovereign identity, and putting this on blockchain, protecting data, and just-- it wasn't there. It was more of a novelty kind of project, thinking, this is going to be awesome. PEO STROMBERG: 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 want to place it, is just the smoothest way to avoid having cards, or using your phone, or et cetera. JOWAN OSTERLUND: RFID, or radio frequency identification, has a standard that's called NFC, so near-field communication. Near-field communication is when you kind of 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, and all the IDs are moving towards NFC in driver's licenses. The most common fears with the technology would be, it's a tracking device, or it's as a controlled device. I'd say it's the direct opposite. This is the one thing that can get you in 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 going to know anything about the data because 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. PEO STROMBERG: If you start to chip people like you do with your pets, of course, it could be intrusive. But again, I'm doing this on a voluntary basis. I share the information that I want to share. I can see that this technology can be used in a variety of different applications, but right now, the most slight thing is just use it to open the office. If you travel with the state-owned railway, you can have your priority card with you in your hands. You just use your chip instead. JOWAN OSTERLUND: In Sweden, it's 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. PEO STROMBERG: Discussing the RSA 252 encryption 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 of being an ambassador, so to speak. JOWAN OSTERLUND: 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 of hundred grand behind a marketing campaign, we'd 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 make it robust and safe for everyone before letting it become huge. I mean, I'm using almost 20 years of professional body piercing and other insights from that industry to make this as foolproof as possible. In 20 years, it's going to be de facto. It's going to be a standard. There's going to be talk not if you get a biochip, rather, what type of chip you're getting. Like different styles of clothing, rather than, do you have a chip? What chip do you have? Bloop, bloop, bloop. So next design is going to be as small, and just way more effective, and secure, and cooler, and connected to crypto, and fiat payment, and e-ID. It's going to be awesome. PEO STROMBERG: You can feel that 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. 

Insights: Could Biochipping Catch On?

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Could Biochipping Catch On?

Jowan Österlund, founder and CEO of Biohax International, believes that microchipping can revolutionize the way people interact with the world. (January 2019)

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