I don’t care who makes it I’m not putting absolutely proprietary software in my brain
I don’t understand owning a computer that you don’t fully control but using prosthetics that can be remotely disabled? This is why we need true open source GPL brain implants.
This isn’t a prosthetic that was remotely disabled, this is failing hardware that doesn’t have support from the original company which is in the process of going bankrupt.
I get where you’re coming from, and agree. Prosthesis and health devices should absolutely not be remotely controllable by a company. But you can’t really help a company shutting down.
And I highly doubt there are any open source implants which help sure blindness that are ready for prime time.
I’m daily driving Linux. And, frankly, for my eye implant, I’ll probably buy from apple.
I mean, no, I will buy something else, jailbreak foss it, will have to patch it while being blind from an update, and proudly tell everyone no friggin government will be able to backdoor my eye. But oh boy I’ll wish I bought one from apple, cuz those guys never go blind from updates.
Yeah, like this is technology I’ve wanted since I was a kid, the stuff I wish people were talking about when they say VR, instead of screens you wear on your head and motion-detection controllers. Video games are a lot better when they are dynamic and current VR tech can’t really do that yet.
But that said, I’ll die never experiencing that before trusting anything Elon Musk is involved with.
What happens if your brain implant is like a phone, and stops getting updates after 2 or so years? That’d suck really bad.
Why in the actual hell are we allowing Elon Musk of all people to put chips in people’s brains?
Was there not some issues with the animal trials last year or am I misremembering?
Didn’t the animal tests lead to pretty bad deaths? And wasn’t that less than a year ago? I can’t imagine this going well.
Plus there was the blind-tech that was revealed not too long ago where now that they’re bankrupt the group is slowly going blind and worse. I feel like none of this is going to end well.
That poor bastard.
