The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up::Thanks in part to Elon Musk, the field of brain-computer interfaces has captured both public and investor interest, with a cadre of companies now developing implantable devices.
Yeah no. Smartphones have ruined our mental health and privacy enough I can’t even imagine what an implant would do to us.
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You joke but they’re actually people running into that problem right now. A company that made bionic eyes shutdown and their users nolonger have support.
Buttons@programming.dev 10 months ago
“Intellectual property” protection has gone too far. It should not be illegal to hack your own devices, it should not be illegal to reverse engineer and break encryption on your own devices. Intellectual property should be inseparable from public interest responsibilities. If you buy a movie (and have proof of such), then whoever owns the IP for the movie should be required to provide you with additional copies, and if the IP gets lost in the legal weeds, then the movie is no longer copyrighted and people can copy and distribute it freely.
DrWorm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wasn’t that specifically because the inventor and doctor died unexpectedly and he just didn’t write any of that stuff down or train others on how the procedure was done?