If we express it practically, as can be understood from the definition, we can say that it is a technological product that enables storing a lot of information in a very small area.
This technology is mostly used in all electronic devices that come to our mind. The simplest example is using chip technology in mobile phones, computers, televisions and medical devices that we use in daily life. Although a millimetre chip stores the information stored by tens of computers, very little energy consumption makes this technology indispensable. Thanks to these advantages we have mentioned, chip technology has become a term we frequently hear in aircraft, defence industry and healthcare.
The chip technology discussions that have come to the middle of our digital life have recently flared up with the Coronavirus sitting on the Earth's agenda. In the news in the media, it is often started to discuss whether it is possible to remotely control the chip by plugging people. We know that animals are chipped so that they know where the animals are and are easy to find when they are lost. So can people get a chip? Yes, it can be worn, and even in a few countries, it is known that people put chips under the skin. People who have chips placed under the skin are called Cyborg and it is estimated that there is more than Ten Thousand Cyborg worldwide.
Sweden, which has a lot of companies producing chip technology, is among the leading countries in the Cyborg issue. So the question of why people prefer this situation, which is risky in terms of their security, comes to our mind immediately. The reason is practicality, facilitates routine work in daily life. For example, contactless payment, ticket-free passage, storing medical information about the person. At this point, discussions are flaring. Some strongly oppose it, as well as those who advocate chipping. It is inconvenient for some groups to hide all the personal data of a person in a rice grain-sized chip and place it on the body, which leads to moral controversy. As it is known, many technological developments that are produced to serve a good purpose can be diverted from its purpose after a while and used by some people for malicious purposes. This is the point that makes scientists think the most.
Scientists who argue that plugging in chips will provide many benefits, especially in cases such as the epidemic of the world (Pandemic), which states that people can be followed very easily from a medical point of view, and this has become a necessity, and the responses to mobile phones they respond using. They say mobile phones are a big chip people have been carrying for years. Those who think that there is only a difference in size between the chip and the mobile phone emphasize that all our data, credit card and bank information, photos and much other personal information are stored on the phones, and even we have fingerprints. Likewise, they argue that thanks to the signals on their mobile phones, people can be followed, listening to the environment, and therefore the negative aspects of the chip technology applied to humans should not be overstated.
These debates continue ... but we can say for sure that chip technology is a technological innovation that is open-fronted, suitable for development, with its advantages and disadvantages.