If it is advertised well, it will be the same as with smartphones nowadays. Companies won’t plant chips into human brains, people will pay to have chips planted into their brains and pay even more for yearly upgrades.
Friendly reminder that pacemakers can and do get hacked
They usually have no security at all though for some reason, maybe for the same reason viruses spread like crazy in the early days of the internet, people didn’t consider that and assumed everyone was acting in good faith
Making a secure device isn’t reeeally that hard these days, as long as you don’t also have to consider physical access (which, if someone has access to physically probe the chip in your brain, you have bigger problems)
Security is an illusion a determined hacker will get into the brain chip
I have a big brain, so I refuse all microchips. I won’t settle for anything less than a macrochip.
they just shove a laptop in your skull
Like a pringle the size of a pool tarp
Time for a megachip
Unfortunately, Robotron went out of business.
“A small microchip about the size of a postcard”
More RAM would be kinda nice though.
Just download more bro
External RAM is cheap. Pen and paper
Ah fuck I forgot where my pen went
Yea, “companies” shouldn’t. But I want a computer in my head eventually, so I can be a cyborg.
Depends on the use case and the oversight. If I lose the ability to walk and an implant can make it easier I’ll take the implant. It’s unfortunate this type of technology didn’t exist for Hawking. With what he had he could only write a sentence a minute IIRC.
New thing bad!!1!
This is the same argument people use against vaccines.
New thing could become mandatory in a future and give governments direct access to our eyes, thoughts, hearing…
Smart phone tracking would become a joke in comparison.
We could also all be living under a social credit score system like in China, but most of us aren’t. Just because something could become our reality, doesn’t mean we should avoid all progress in that field.
[…] we should avoid all progress in that field
Who said that? Because I did not
But Smartphones are tracked and hacked by governments. And it is legal in most cases. And people are killed by governments.
the government only ever kills bad people, right? its not like laws will ever change
In the end it doesn’t matter if it’s legal or not. They will do it anyways. Like it was the case with Preditor and the Greek government. Or Pegasus and Mexico. In the case of Pegasus and Mexico, people actually died.
true.
Do you always take things way further then they’ll ever go? It’s pretty much blatant flanderazation at this point.
further then they’ll ever go?
It may or not may happpen, but there’s a potential.
Not really.
You’re the kind of person that cannot be argued with, but that doesn’t imply that you hold the truth.
Lmao, sure pal.
Seems like young adults are becoming old men, calling the new gimmicky tech thing that hit the market that’s supposedly evil.
The thing is, vaccines work pretty well, but letting some already corrupt asf corporation (or any entity) implant a microchip in your brain is obviously a bad idea. Please do a favor for yourself and the human race by sitting down for a few minutes and asking yourself: “what could go wrong?”.
Should a profit-driven company do it?
HELL NO!
Should it be researched so one day it can be done cheaply, safely, healthily, with absolute control given to the person receiving the hardware?
HELL YES!
It’ll never happen. As long as there is any kind of economy there will be some greedy fuck running nike ads in your brain every time you think about shoes.
There is a non-zero chance that once they have a chip in your brain, they will find a way to stream ads in to it.
For that reason, I’m out.
Why stream ads when they can more-directly influence you?
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Waking up with an unavoidable craving to watch “OW! My balls!” I’m in!
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Hello You, come CloZer
Wait, you mean I can let the guy who invented a shittier version of a subway train (the tunnel has colorful LEDs though) and routinely bitches about safety regulations put computer chips in my brain?! Woah, sign me up for the future!
i cant believe they actually built that tunnel. they filled a nearly inescapable underground tube with cars known for combusting and burning for ages
That’s fine. That thing is halfway round the globe. I’ll be just fine
Not only that, but burning aggressively. I’ve seen my share of car fires, having worked in EMS for 12 years, there’s no such thing as a gentle car fire; if they burned any more aggressively, they’d basically just explode. Well, something about the lithium makes these fires fucking rip and they’re a nightmare to put out. I just did some quick googling, and supposedly Li-ion battery fires are able to supply their own oxygen (holy shit), so you can’t put a lithium battery fire out by smothering it with water or foam. Maybe I’m wrong and someone who isn’t an Internet idiot (it’s me, I’m the idiot) can correct me, but that sounds hella bad, and like of one of those cars caught fire in that tunnel, that fire just flat out isn’t getting put out.
ive heard that too
Alternative answer: YES!
Companies know best what is good for us and people crave stuff with a micro- prefix, like microplastics (yummy), microtransactions (funny), microbial infections (it’s like a pet), microwaves in your brain (tickles), etc.
I love my pet bacteria!
I read somewhere that we have more bacteria in/on our bodies than actual cells containing out own DNA, so really, who’s the pet here?
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micropenis!
^^ the most awesome answer!!! i love consooming!!!
I think in a perfect world it could be really cool
In this one however it’ll just be exploited
Could it be so cool that it’s worth making the world perfect?
Personally, I think the technology has great potential. But under capitalism? Fuck no.
Lol i would say no under any system.
There are legitimate, helpful uses for such technology
Yeah, for example as a coder being able to conjecture code just by thinking it would be magical.
to do that with someone’s brain would be a nightmare, stray thoughts would fuck up the code and it would take forever to make anything comprehensible
Exactly. And the potential for VR and total immersion development. Thinking things into existence. The art people could make from pure imagination. A real metaverse.
I was thinking more along the lines of “Oh, this will make my legs work again!” or “This chip bypasses the damage done by [horrible brain disease] allowing you to reclaim some significant percentage of functionality”
That is another clear benefit, yes!
Gimme open sourced brain chips and I’m in
Yes. Democratically produced and managed
You are now required to use the command line just to think.
Can you imagine getting stuck in vim?!
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If I can play videogames in my head while I’m at work, great. If my addict dopamine brain gets highjacked so that I don’t know how to do anything except consume ads then bad.
It will be the latter, and if you complain then people will call you a “privacy nutjob” because it will be considered normal
“Experiencing life without the chip is like stealing content”
I can hear it now
thats so true. “no-ones forcing you to get chipped (unless you want to work or buy anything or enter a mall or …)”
