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@ 2022/08/12So that is one conspiracy consigned to the dustbin
Amazon has announced an expansion of its palm-reading payments service, Amazon One, which will come to a range of new Whole Foods stores, and while it will not tell your fortune it does kill off a long standing conspiracy myth parading as Biblical prophecy .
In the 1970s when IBM released bar scanning to supermarkets the fundamentalist Christian movement spend considerable time and effort proving that bar scans were the “mark of the beast.” They claimed that the left-wing governments would force users to tatoo a bar scan on their forehead or hand before they could buy food.
It was based on a rather creative reading of the Book of Revelation which was written in the first century by John of Patmos who seemed to be rather too full of magic mushrooms. The conspiracy theory more or less died when fundamentalist Christians realised they were not going to be able to buy their favourite snacks which ironically was sort of the point of the conspiracy theory.
Amazon has announced an expansion of its palm-reading payments service, Amazon One, which will come to a range of new Whole Foods stores, and while it will not tell your fortune it does kill off a long standing conspiracy myth parading as Biblical prophecy .
In the 1970s when IBM released bar scanning to supermarkets the fundamentalist Christian movement spend considerable time and effort proving that bar scans were the “mark of the beast.” They claimed that the left-wing governments would force users to tatoo a bar scan on their forehead or hand before they could buy food.
It was based on a rather creative reading of the Book of Revelation which was written in the first century by John of Patmos who seemed to be rather too full of magic mushrooms. The conspiracy theory more or less died when fundamentalist Christians realised they were not going to be able to buy their favourite snacks which ironically was sort of the point of the conspiracy theory.
