The beast is the massive computer complex tracking us and recording everywhere we go, everything we buy, and everything we say online. We even voluntarily put 'smart devices' in our homes to listen in to our so-called private conversations. We'll soon move to a cashless society and yes, we will all have RFID chips implanted in us and you will not be able to buy or sell without one.
For a quick preview of what it will be like read up on China and their 'social score'. It will be world wide soon.