Not necessarily a neuralink specifically, just any genre or type of cybernetic implants, if they were or will become available. I’m super hesitant on anything interfacing with my brain so I’d probably stay organic, except like if I lost my eyesight or hearing.
No, because then it’d be like in the Genetic Opera where we don’t own the parts we need to keep us alive. We’d have to pay those too, in absurd amounts. And if we don’t, we’ll just die. It’s already looking like that anyways with the “Pay or Die” system we have in healthcare.
No.
I’ve seen how often tech breaks, gets controlled, becomes unsupported, and can never really get things “right.”
But like you said, if it’s that or blindness, sure. But I’m not chopping off good parts.
I’ll take blindness… at least I can still tell them to feknoff when they try to sell me more trash
Someone hasn’t played the Deus Ex series…
No. Restoring human-like capability following some kind of traumatic event, sure.
“Nothing voluntary” and “nothing that grants superhuman abilities” are the bare minimum to make sure it doesn’t turn into an arms race, leading to a tiered society with the enhanced elite ruling over the organic poor.
Thats more a capitalism problem though. Literally any technology increases human capability in some way, its just usually not as visceral a way as something that modifies one’s body, and then you still get the issue that those with wealth end up owning that thing and controlling what it is used for to their own ends, which generally dont include sharing that control with everyone else. Theres not some distinction between that capacity increase being external or internal that makes the latter lead to inequality but not the former.
I’m so tired of not being able to have amazing things because a few hundred assholes want to cosplay as Smaug…
Both of those lines will be crossed of they haven’t already
You mean like glasses 250 years ago?
Is the hardware and software open source or otherwise not owned by a corporation. Then maybe.
I would need a few things met:
- No data flow back to my brain
- Open source
- Not flagged as disallowed by TSA
- Programmable (kind of goes with OSS)
- Actually useful
- Extremely minimal maintenance
If all of these were met, HEEELLLL YEA
No data flow back to my brain
Isn’t that just a current generation prosthetic?
Can’t wait to accidentally brick my eyes trying to install an ad blocker lol
For Funsies? Likely not, no.
For medical reasons like steering a prostetic, yeah, maybe.
Right now, there is no such thing as a completely open source laptop/desktop computer. You can have an open source operating system. You can even have an open source bios in the form of libreboot. The hardware however, is impossible to have as open source too. intel, amd, and arm all have closed source binary blobs in them. Risc-v might be an option, but frankly, I don’t expect any for profit company to make their hardware accessible in any sort of intentional way.
I will never willingly put any tech inside my body that isn’t entirely open source. (Just you watch, i’ll make a fuss about the pacemaker tech I need to have installed in 50 years!) Since this currently excludes every major hardware company in existence, I don’t expect to ever answer this question positively.
As long as it doesn’t require a fucking WiFi connection and corporate account to use.
Yes, to solve a medical issue or to genuinely improve my existence.
But if we’re talking about something really advanced with software in it I need open source. I’ve already read real news articles about ocular implants where the company that supports them went out of business. Second Sight Medical Products.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to have an implant in my body that’s been bricked due to some corporate bullshit.
Lotta badasses in here who would never compromise on their ideals of software purity.
That is, until the very moment they became disabled or unhealthy in a way that an implant with proprietary blobs can fix…
Nice try, Sarif Industries. I’ve played some Deus Ex, I know how this goes.
ITT: Aug scum.
I really wonder about the blindness one. Cameras are simple now, we just need a way to feed the information into the brain. It didn’t need to be anything as fancy as an eyeball, just glasses with a camera.
It’s been done. There are some people with cybernetic optical implants which give limited vision.
The company that did this went bankrupt, and a patent troll bought the patent. The implants are now rotting away inside the heads of the original test subjects, and no doctor knows how to remove them because the procedure is also part of the patent.
I don’t trust companies to even give me usable software anymore, let alone functioning hardware.
they have no business touching any human in a medical sense… HELL NO
I wouldn’t want them. Too much that can go wrong.
Yes, if they’re not owned and controlled by some corporate entity.
Considering how unlikely that is, I’ll probably never get cybernetic implants.
