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.
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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.
“Intellectual property” protection has gone too far. It should not be illegal to repair 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.
As a society, we have no interest in making your rich just because you’re a passive owner, you provide no benefit to society and society should provide no benefit to you. However, if you create a popular movie, and you distribute it and you take responsibility for ensuring that those who have purchased the movie are able to view it freely, then you are rendering a service to society and deserve to profit.
Yeah no. Smartphones have ruined our mental health and privacy enough I can’t even imagine what an implant would do to us.
I will sooner implant a bullet before this proprietary bullshit
Is this going to be like those neurotech implants for the deaf blind that the company went under and now the people get no service, support or anything?
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html
Unlikely. These implants require far less in terms of outside-the-body tech.
Also those people were blind, which is a whole other issue because you need external feedback processing.
Its novelty is that it doesn’t require open brain surgery. Instead, it’s implanted through a slit at the base of the neck and threaded up through the jugular vein into the motor cortex—the part of the brain that directs movement. The device is powered by a small battery pack placed under the skin of the chest. Synchron has implanted 10 patients, including six in a US feasibility trial supported by the Brain Initiative.
Being up to “cure” paralysis is a great thing.
I love the idea of augmentation, but not from any corporation.
Free open source cybernetics will be the shit in like 40 years if humanity hasn’t been completely wiped out by then.
