Swedish workers are letting their office manager microchip them

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Would you let your boss implant a microchip in your hand?

Members of Swedish start-up hub Epicenter did.

In the name of convenience, people who utilise the shared office space allowed for a chip – about the size of a grain of rice – to be installed under their skin.

Apparently this technology lets them operate the printer and even "buy smoothies" with a simple wave of the hand.

[Via Paramount Pictures]

Because all tech-loving cyborgs looooove smoothies and if there's a faster way to get activated chlorophyll bee pollen magic into their bellies, they're listening. 

Basically, this technology is along the lines of what you're seeing in the video above - designed to streamline everyday office tasks. 

"The biggest benefit, I think, is convenience,” Epicenter chief executive Patrick Mesterton told the Associated Press.

"It basically replaces a lot of things you have, other communication devices, whether it be credit cards or keys."

Sure, sounds logical enough but in a world that has been over-saturated with sci-fi horrors and dystopian future cautionary tales, people are preeeetty suss about this sort of thing:

While there's plenty of benefits that can come with something like a personal chip – it could alert ambos to your medical history, allow you to store important docs like birth certificates or even just unlock your letterbox – people immediately skip to what could happen when things go wrong.

We've all heard of spies "hacking into the mainframe" but that becomes a lot less hilarious when you are the mainframe.

And let's face it, we do tend to fear new technology.

[Via A+E Networks]

But this isn't something they've done in the last few weeks – it's been around for years now.

The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones checked out the whole thing in January 2015, when people in the office space were using their chips like you would a fob or pass card.

And as of yet, we haven't heard of any dystopian future thriller pilots unfolding just yet.

But that's not to say that a chip is for everyone.

And considering how many times we consider faking our deaths and starting a new life in the Caribbean after every awkward social encounter, we're not about to have a permanent identifier implanted in our bodies.

But whether you like it or not, the future is here people.

Huh, we thought there would be a lot more metallic clothing, TBH.

[Title photo via Getty Images]