Nexus S will become a contactless analogue of a credit card, will contain an NFC chip and bring the apocalypse closer.

Sofya Doronina, on the Fest News website , said that Eric Schmidt (Google’s executive director) demonstrated the Nexus S running Android version 2.3 (“Gingerbread”) with an integrated NFC chip at a conference in San Francisco — and this chip will allow mobile phones to be used as an analogue of credit cards for payment of purchases and services in a contactless way (it will be enough just to bring the mobile phone to the corresponding terminal at a distance of less than ten centimeters).

Yegor Stanislavovich Kholmogorov rightly notes that such technological developments (which, as we know at Habrahabr, were started by Nokia , and also enjoyed support from Apple and Visa ) carry the danger of popularizing satanic totalitarianism: indeed, if any government starts implanting NFC -like payment chips in their citizens (to be able to instantly rob anyone), and so will the very mark of the Beast, about which St. John writes in the last of the books of the New Testament.

I am most of all interested in whether such chips will take root in the Russian conditions, and if so, how. Perhaps, the possibility of unpleasant accidents that users' money will suffer will be wider, especially if the chip is paired with the account of mobile operators of the “Big Three”, or if this chip cannot be turned off in Android with the same ease with which the GPS chips are turned off by widgets one by one, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when not needed. Muscovites, for example, need to be ready right now, because the Moscow Metro promised to introduce NFC as a means of paying for travel even before the New Year , and with the support of the cellular operator MTS: it is the transfer of funds from the subscriber’s mobile account that is meant, with which I ironically congratulate you . You had paid incoming SMS, and now, perhaps, there will be paid incoming NFC. Get ready.