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The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up (www.wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] captainlezbian 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah and I want to offer a realistic not horrifying bad scenario: features that can’t be turned off but drive you nuts. Shit like Bluetooth auto connect and auto play. Or buggy software updates. Or any number of existing things that already go wrong with assistive devices.

I don’t think brain implants are universally nightmarish. But if they’re starting with people like Elon musk and grand ideas of transhumanism it’s gonna go bad. If it starts with assistive devices and evolves naturally from there I think there’s a chance it goes ok. But even then there are people today with cochlear implants of wildly different quality because they advanced so much between being able to afford the first one and being able to afford the second one.