Nah.
Not a chance.
Yeah, nah. I see less Night City and more…permanent night city in that were all blind and/or dead. Although maybe the rampant all-powerful capitalism of the cyberpunk lore would still happen.
What in the hell are people with brain implants going to do when they stop supporting their hardware or keep additional features behind a paywall. People would be forced to pay whatever the company wanted.
This is ripe for human rights abuse on a level we have never seen before. Imagine being locked out of your own body. Without important safety guards and laws to protect people it would surely cause untold suffering.
Well, one can design and make and test implants that’ll still work 50 years after there’s no more Elon.
But! Today’s “progress” is about increasing functionality and performance, not reliability. And such implants will be made only when there’s taboo on unreliable stuff in such critical areas in 3 different dimensions - company getting murdered legally is the first, its management getting murdered physically is the second, nobody in their right mind buying such is the third.
Either that, or just straight up obsolescence like what happened with some bionic vision aids
Just stops working one day, or eventually an exploit will drop that will never end up patched because the company folded. or due to planned force-upgrade
How do you even exploit a bionic eye, it should just DAP the picture.
Even better way to enslave people than tying basic things like food, water and shelter to money and controlling how to get money. You will have to pay anything you are told or you will die and/or suffer. Try to rebel in any way and its kill or pain switch for you or refusal of service if its too early for that.
Its scary how this doesnt sound as crazy as it should
Don’t really like the guy but the implants are for people with disabilities that stop/hinder their ability to interact with the digital world, which is certainly fun and exciting for those who want that ability. It’s a shame Musk is the figurehead for many of these projects because his brand is dirt to anyone that isn’t neck deep in blockchain, AGI, culture war, and general scam content.
They’ve existed for decades but required a “helmet” like device.
There’s no people waiting for this who can’t use the existing and safe tech.
We were literally doing this with monkeys 50 years ago, and Musk killed all his monkey subjects because they couldn’t even do basic brain surgery in a sterilized lab
Now he wants to do it to humans.
In less than a day of training, both participants broke the record of all previous implants for a game which tests your ability to select items In a grid
Today, Nolan would probably beat you at that game even with you practicing for (edit quite) a bit.
Hate the man if you want but this isn’t the same tech that anyone can get and use that’s 50y old.
Aye, GSF above has a fundamental ignorance (and I mean that in the neutral, descriptive way) of what the technology is doing. Not going to comment on Musk’s ability to run a company that performs these studies well of course but it’s in clinical trials and there are plenty of punitive regulations in that system to control what people do. Also not saying Musk won’t try to circumvent those like a impatient bozo though. 😂
And FYI, plenty of asshole scientists, CEOs, and inventors around discovering and making things that make the world what it is today. Musk’s just the one you’re hearing about right now.
Are you trying to quote an article or something?
Or are you just really sure about what you’re saying …
Because you shouldnt be
As it requires going inside me, i wound never use it regardless of what it can do.
-my wife when I pitched the idea of get some toys for sexy time-
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was not a manual, Elon
And we won’t be the cool protagonist with sleek looking augs and doing parkour with Icarus either. We’ll be the ones hooked on neuropozyne hoping for our implants not going haywire at some point.
And millions of people want Elon Musk to get one himself.
He shoulda gone first 🧠🔫
I bet the guy down the street wants to sell millions of hot dogs.
It would probably be wiser to implant a bullet in your brain then let that man do neurosurgery on you.
Elon musk: is inventing brain chips
People: oh okay.
Elon musk: wants people to use them
People:
You first Ketamusk.
And anyone stupid enough to get one deserves the brain damage that comes with it. Hell, maybe they’ll then buy Twitter and run it into the ground. Oh wait, some other moron did that.
Edit> Found the Musk sycophants :)
