These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.

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    11 months ago

    This sort of tech needs to be heavily regulated in how proprietary it can be; not at fucking all.

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      11 months ago

      At a minimum, one should be able to cut off access to the internet so a company can’t EoS killswitch it/pull a Nintendo and send an EoS fuck you update that breaks any attempts to put control in the user’s hands

      Mind, that’s a really fucking low bar, and would be depressing if that’s all regulation guaranteed

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        11 months ago

        Yeah that bar is too low. Putting tech in someone to keep them alive or enhance their life somehow should come with some sort of permanent responsibility from somewhere. If the company goes bankrupt the expertise doesn’t just vanish, then make it a public responsibility to ensure that whoever was granted eyesight from some kind of implant, gets to keep that. Hell, make the technology and research public as well.

        Bodyparts/functions should belong entirely to whomever possess them, a company going bankrupt doesn’t suddenly mean that someone should lose their ability to walk or whatever.

        No company should be able to “own” someone’s bodypart, or their ability to perform a certain task or whatever. The notion is preposterous.

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        11 months ago

        What did Nintendo do exactly? I know they pull off a lot of shit, but I have not heard about this

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          11 months ago

          When EoS came for 3DS, they sent out one last update to kill as many methods of accessing homebrew as possible