What terrifies me about this is that there are no regulations or laws in place that say how long this tech that is implanted into people must be supported. Those poor people who got the bionic eye implants are now left with no replacement parts or support after the company went under, leaving those with implants that still work seeing with borrowed time.
Our right to repair and IP ownership laws are not ready for the cybernetic revolution
It’ll be like Cyberpunk 2077: “Why repair when you could just get new stuff?” That’s basically a quote from V too, as you find the possibly last repair shop in Night City. Took me by surprise…
This whole thing sucks because this kind of tech has the potential to be revolutionary. For people with paralysis, or those experiencing vision loss due to eye issues, the tech to interface nerves with sensors and inputs will be absolutely revolutionary. On the other hand, Musk has a terrible track record with safety and regulation, develops tech by abusing researchers and workers with unrealistic timelines and expectations, overpromises and under delivers, and responds with hostility to even the most measured criticism. Having his name tied to the version of this tech leading the news cycle will paint it in a dystopian light, raising the regulatory bar to “panic” levels with no nuance, and will likely result in pushing more realistic approaches to the tech back a significant amount of time, hurting those it would help most.
You have to watch 2 15seconds advertisements before you sleep.
Give it 10 years and open source will have something not as good, but good enough. Then we won’t have to deal with all the extra ads of the normal devices. We will be able to side load some cool new upgrade, while the rest will have to change models to the Brain Master 21 to access a slightly better feature.
Elon may be the first to commercialize this tech for the masses but there is no way he will be the only one who makes one of these devices.
I imagine that scenario, for us might be weird cyberpunk-ish world. Thats the power and the philosophy of open source.
I’ll implant a bullet in my head before any tech directly touches my neurons.
But you can be a cyberpunk!
You’d be Elon’s cyberpunk, though.
more like cyberbitch
