Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoAnyone 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.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pace makers aren’t made my anticapitalist cooperatives, you know.
themoken@startrek.website 4 weeks 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.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 weeks ago
Didn’t someone relatively recently have a prosthetic that needed a new battery that wasn’t produced anymore?
Evkob@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
rikudou@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Who would’ve thunk, standards exist for a reason.
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Very true and I should have been more specific.