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(Undo revision 151674 by 69.42.15.3 (talk). The career chip was abandoned.)
(The career chip has managed to appear in one two First Run episodes, one Second Run episode, and even one issue of the comics. Therefore, how is this piece of technology an "abandoned idea"?)
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'''Career chips''' are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent career. People are given the chip for the job they're best at. According to {{Leela}} in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]," it is against the law to not have a career chip implanted, or to have it removed, and the punishment for such an act is to be "fired out of a cannon into the sun". In the same episode, [[Smitty]] suggests that people who take such actions are labeled as "job deserters." Despite what is presumably established in the [[television]] pilot, there have been numerous instances when career chips have been removed and implanted without any such legal consequences, suggesting that either this law was amended shortly after {{Fry}} was [[cryo-tube|cryogenically unfrozen]], or that it is just never enforced.
'''Career chips''' are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent career. People are given the chip for the job they're best at. According to {{Leela}} in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]," it is against the law to not have a career chip implanted, or to have it removed, and the punishment for such an act is to be "fired out of a cannon into the sun". In the same episode, [[Smitty]] suggests that people who take such actions are labeled as "job deserters." Despite what is presumably established in the [[television]] pilot, there have been numerous instances when career chips have been removed without any such legal consequences, suggesting that either the laws surrounding it were amended shortly after {{Fry}} was [[cryo-tube|cryogenically unfrozen]], or that they are just never reinforced.


== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
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[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 09:30, 8 November 2015

Career chip
Career Chip.png
First appearance"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)
Episode

Career chips are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent career. People are given the chip for the job they're best at. According to Leela in "Space Pilot 3000," it is against the law to not have a career chip implanted, or to have it removed, and the punishment for such an act is to be "fired out of a cannon into the sun". In the same episode, Smitty suggests that people who take such actions are labeled as "job deserters." Despite what is presumably established in the television pilot, there have been numerous instances when career chips have been removed without any such legal consequences, suggesting that either the laws surrounding it were amended shortly after Fry was cryogenically unfrozen, or that they are just never reinforced.

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