Several years ago, there was discussion of totally "electronic" (= paperless) passport cards, all visas etc. would be placed on one of these. Does anyone remember this?
While there is a passport card for land and sea travel to Canada and the Caribbean, this doesn't seem to match your description.
While the idea of an electronic passport card, I think it will be quite a while before it is adopted. Some of the countries that I travel to simply would not be able to afford the infrastructure which would be necessary to adopt to deal with electronic cards. They don't even have the equipment of the standards which most developed countries have today, e.g. scanners. Some of them barely have computers.