Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

jimerson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• EvilFonzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Anyone putting corporate technology into their bodies is just asking to get Black Mirror’ed. I always thought it would be cool to have my body replaced by a sick robot, but I know I’ll never be rich enough to afford the cool one. I’ll just be in the Hyundai Bodi or whatever.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Anyone putting corporate technology into their bodies is just asking to get Black Mirror’ed.

    Pace makers aren’t made my anticapitalist cooperatives, you know.

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    • themoken@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Pace makers keep you from dying so they’re sort of on a different level of need. Also, if corps did planned obsolescence on one, you’re probably not around to buy another.

      If they were invented today, they would definitely have a predatory subscription model for “monitoring” your heart, or require occasional maintenance at cost to the end user.

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      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Didn’t someone relatively recently have a prosthetic that needed a new battery that wasn’t produced anymore?

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    • EvilFonzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Very true and I should have been more specific.

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• firadin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

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