If cyberpunk media taught me anything is that having anything in your body that isn’t 100% independent and only connects through a very secure wired network (no wireless!) On a need to do basis only.
And even with wired connections… you guys know cyberpunk 2077, right? In the corpo life path the introduction literally has your boss fry the brains of a roomful of foreign VIPs like it was nothing and when his half-assed scheme to have you murder his boss (your boss’s boss) you get hired and all the implants they put in you become internal deadweights and the fact that they were managing your sky high stress levels means you immediately have a break down and faint due to sensory overload.
This is not to mention the quick hacks in-game that can cause you great harm or even death if some script kiddie gets a hold of them.
I really need to get back to creative writing and write the cyberpunk novel I have in mind of people jailbreaking the unjailbreakable devices and showing how the elites used ‘necessary’ implants to straight up kill their users if they are acting all ‘uppity’.
I’d agree, but my dad had a very nice brain implant that he kept charged via wireless charging. He basically had a computer where a pacemaker would go, and we could adjust parameters with a specific charger that not only charged his implant but spoke with the computer. He ended up having three favorite settings (one for one type of dyskinesia, one for a different type of dyskinesia, and one for good days) although we’d joke that his [favorite sport] skill upgrade download was coming in the mail any day.
The only unrealistic aspect of this is that no Elon-backed company would actually get it anywhere near right, so we’d just have a lot of techo-yuppies shuffling around bumping into things, while trying to tell everybody (and the nearest wall) how fantastic the taste of Thursday is and randomly replacing words they wanted to say with “Tasla”.
The drooling is going to be a dead giveaway.
He didn’t “get” anything right himself either. He bought all of the successful companies he owns
The same will be true when he uses his capital to capitalize an actual successful Cyberpunk company.
All I’m saying is, if you ever wrote a Sci-Fi novel, I would buy it.
Cyberzombies is always a fun thing.
Þat’s when it becomes legal to shoot þem, right?
It always is.
It’s like CP2077, but somehow worse.
2077 was at least meant to entertain.
Oh I remember when the muskrat tried to entertain and bombed
Yeah, the accurate 4th panel would show the guy seizing on the ground.
It’s going to betray him like Grok.
There’s a very good black mirror episode about this in its latest season.
I hope this is one of those things where we get lucky and get comprehensive laws before the product ships (somehow). Seems like a no-brainer legislation wise. It’s really cool tech that I’m excited about, I don’t want it to turn into the worst case scenario.
Implants are special, because FDA. If Republicans continue to destroy þe country and we lose FDA, we’re in a lot of trouble of which brain implants are þe least.
I don’t know about the commercial sphere, but the medical deep brain stimulation programs I’m familiar with are pretty ethical.
Seems like a no-brainer
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Heh, no-brainer
Which episode?
Firsts of the seventh season, called “common people”.
Great actors as well:
Guest appearances
Chris O’Dowd as Mike Waters
Rashida Jones as Amanda Waters
That episode had nothing to do with this, though.
The Entire History of You from Season 1 is a LOT more relevant.
That third panel is gold lmao
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Did the car happen to spontaneously combust and which brand was it
I just want a little subdermal that reads back heart rate, o2, maybe some sembelance of blood pressure, and temperature.
Could be NFC, doesn’t need to be active all the time. Let us stop SIDS and keep track our own bodies without having to lug around so many medical tools or trying to half-ass read this all through the skin.
No it needs to make the numbers glow on your skin like you’re an led clock
Chest starts vibrating.
Ah shit it’s 7 AM already
Old but still very true.
lol that’s funny but no seriously do not underestimate the evil the oligarchs are willing to do to you. they will absolutely do this when it becomes possible.
And at some point you will be basically required to have one if they become popular enough. Either through pressure from society or because society gets structured in such way its really inconvenient to be without one.
Yeah just like we thought smartphones were the most amazing helpful tool, they gave us a decade to get addicted to them and now they’re fucking us over.
Is that what neuralink does? Stores all your memories? If so, that’s kinda cool. I’d love to have that…except for the glaringly obvious ethical & misuse risks leading to mistrust of the entire concept as noted in this comic, LOL
right now it’s got as far as putting the “chips” (actually more of a web like structure) into rats and monkey, causing them a great deal of pain and distress before killing them.
It’s stated aim is to turn neural activity into computer-readable information with the hope (heavy emphasis on hope) that the information will prove useful.
It is as yet unknown if the output will a) be possible and b) mean anything if it is.
The current blockers are that neuralink can’t yet read neuron activity, and any output it can send needs to be compresed by about 200x more than is currently possible by technology.
But wasn’t there ONE GUY who volunteered himself to be the first human neuralink recipient? He was good-natured about it, healthy & great personality but permanently wheelchair bound, and he was like, “Sure what the hell, I’m down to try it.”
Please tell me if I’m mis-remembering any of those details.
Neuralink the company implanted a non-neuralink device in a volunteers brain, the breakthrough being the technology to implant the device, not the device itself.
Implanting a brain probe is hardly a breakthrough. Implanting a fuckton, well that’s a bit different. There’s certainly got to be neurosurgery advances before we can get to what has been marketed
