Are we getting closer to Revelation 13:16-18?

Newspaper clip from 東方日報 published in Hong Kong on 08-JAN-2006.

Smart chips to be implemented into hands, will they be implemented to our foreheads soon? Are we getting closer as what stated in Bible book of Revelation 13:16-18

"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666. " (Revelation 13:16-18)