On July 22, 2025, NYNext, a New York Post channel, premiered a profile with a question for a title: "Would You Microchip Yourself to Skip Keys and Cards? He Did."
The framing writes itself after twenty years. Their summary: I "implanted RFID chips in [my] hands back in 2005 to unlock [my] home, car, and computer with a wave — no keys, no cards," and "what started as a personal solution to lost keys evolved into two companies, Dangerous Things and Vivokey Technologies, offering implantable tech for everything from payments to digital security."
The last line of their description is the part I could have written myself: "While early reactions were skeptical, Graafstra believes people are now warming up to the idea of merging secure digital identity with the human body." In 2006, the questions I fielded were about the mark of the beast and government tracking. In 2025, a New York tabloid's video desk asks, more or less earnestly, whether you, the reader, should get one to skip keys and cards. That shift is the story.