You don’t even need the movies to have some dystopian implant horror. Second sigh used to produce a sight restoring implant. After some financial trouble they stopped manufacturing and support for one of their products. Leaving recipients of the implant sightless in the case the hardware breaks.
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BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Wasn’t there a movie or show where someone stopped hearing people because of some brainchip fee he didn’t pay?
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danc4498@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sounds like a black mirror episode… definitely different, but I always think about the Christmas episode where somebody gets blocked by society and nobody can see him again.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
One of the later red dwarf episodes has this. The ship gets upgraded to m-corp, and as registered crew lister is the only one impacted.
frazw@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You might be thinking of upload? Digital afterlife where premium users get to experience everything normally and when you run out of money your bandwidth is limited.