It doesn't even have to be suspicious (or even technology) a lot of times. Just having a widely-used form of currency* is enough, since for the ones making the claim, the reason for a currency's ubiquity has to be nefarious, and not simply a practical consequence of how markets work - ironically, due to the ideologies championed by those politicians that shamelessly pander to the demographics that go nuts on this topic. In other words, they caused the popularity that they now consider evil by voting these people into office in the first place. Not that they'd ever acknowledge it. In the 90s we got the Amerocentist 'the Euro is the Mark and the EU is the Beast' nonsense, and a recent report about how the U.S. Dollar is a de facto standard currency* caused the senitment to rear up again with the target changed. Despite the primacy of the U.S. Dollar in world markets having been true for more than a couple decades, even during the 90s (when it was apparently supposed to be the Euro - does the Beast have two Marks?). It's opportunistic blindness, because the Dollar being in that position was more or less common knowledge for a long time, much longer than their eschatological timelines would allow for. Or credit cards, UPC barcodes, the Internet, Facebook, Google, solar panels, compact fluorescent light bulbs, rainbows in your sprinkers, the face on Mars, the old logo for Procter & Gamble, or random patterns in your pet cat's fur. Poorly written and unimaginative apocalyptic science fiction at that. *It's like they'd read credible analysis that it most likely was referring to Roman currency with the visage of the Emperor on it (due to the whole 'the Emperor is a living god' thing), but went insane with the notion because Revelation couldn't possibly be social commentary disguised as apocalyptic literature to be able to get past Roman censors.
), but no one's ever even asked me what I believe or asked me to join, they are that desperate for help in Sunday School 
