cashless society control grid

Like many schools, Howell High and the Howell campus of Lansing Community College have a room set aside where students can buy pop, chips and candy. But this one is different. There's no checkout clerk. Every item in the store has an electronic device on it called a Radio Frequency Identification tag, or RFID.

Don't carry RFID? You might be surprised; the short-range ID technology is currently found in everything from US passports to swipeless credit cards to public transit passes to World Cup tickets to car keys to the building access pass for your office building. A few of the digerati even elect to have RFID implants from VeriChip slipped beneath their skin in order to use them as cashless payment systems.