Even better way to enslave people than tying basic things like food, water and shelter to money and controlling how to get money. You literally have to pay or you will die and/or suffer.
Comment on Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What in the hell are people with brain implants going to do when they stop supporting their hardware or keep additional features behind a paywall. People would be forced to pay whatever the company wanted.
This is ripe for human rights abuse on a level we have never seen before. Imagine being locked out of your own body. Without important safety guards and laws to protect people it would surely cause untold suffering.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, one can design and make and test implants that’ll still work 50 years after there’s no more Elon.
But! Today’s “progress” is about increasing functionality and performance, not reliability. And such implants will be made only when there’s taboo on unreliable stuff in such critical areas in 3 different dimensions - company getting murdered legally is the first, its management getting murdered physically is the second, nobody in their right mind buying such is the third.
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Either that, or just straight up obsolescence like what happened with some bionic vision aids
Just stops working one day, or eventually an exploit will drop that will never end up patched because the company folded. or due to planned force-upgrade obsolescence
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do you even exploit a bionic eye, it should just DAP the picture.