I happened to come across it and now with the advent of digital currency and digital ID did this make sense! Isn’t it already like this is China?

15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Well… “the image” has this power to speak and if we don’t worship it we’re in for it!…. yes… images of our leaders, on tv and the newspapers. And then there’s blue beam. And drones.
It’s all making sense now.
China and North Korea are huge examples.