Wild Card's progress: nominated
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 3 - ICT - Information & communication technologies
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Components, systems, engineering
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2025
Wild Card's description
The biochips are envisioned to “prophesize” potential predisposition to, or diagnose the early onset of human diseases, paving the way for advances in personalized health care. Such a clever chip may be implatnt to everybody already in childhood. The holder of the chip then may periodicaly check gained information through specialised software and get up-to-date inofmration about his health. Strong security measures - technical and legal - are implemented to minimalize the posiibilty of misuse of biochip personal data by else unauthorized pearson.