It’s not like we don’t know the playbook already.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/
Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they’ll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.
And your employment history, financial status, known associates, voter record, you get the idea.
“You’ll eventually give in” Tells you everything you need to know about the power of large tech companies in the US .
We have the money and the power to force this technology in to the mainstream. Tech companies know that Congress is way too old, way too corrupt, and way too slow to really do anything about regulating stuff like this in a reasonable time frame. They have no real barriers and the heads of these companies don’t give a shit about the user as long as they pay their monthly subscription.
I don’t trust these ghouls to pour me a glass of water, they won’t get anywhere near my body
So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.
… Actually, that would make a great horror movie.
We will all carry our “papers” around in our bodies.
The choice between the chip and a bullet?
Dont expect everyone to sit idly by for either option.
Can’t wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.
If they can blast in the ads, the need for physical toys pretty much goes away…
That’s a hell of a faustian bargain, good luck with that.
I’ve been evangelising for smart glasses for years. But even if they get the functionality I’ve been hoping for I’m still not going to get them, because i don’t want every woman i meet to think I’m secretly recording her tits
There’s no way I’m letting Elon musk do brain surgery on me to harvest my thoughts
What functionality are you looking for? Most I can think of is gimmicky at best.
Would be interested even in gimmicky use cases.
Oh, plenty of what i want is gimmicky. GIVE ME A HUD!
But i can think of things like overlaying arrows on the environment when getting walking directions, setting reminders by seeing things/people, being able to fully view 3d objects when doing things like identifying something (say a flower you’ve seen) by image
Yeah this usual stuff would be nice but the trade off with privacy and surveillance is not worth the risk IMO. :(
I want a health bar.
So many people are already functionally hooked up, even if it is happening through their eyes and not a direct wire. Prove me wrong, everybody: don’t touch any of your devices for a week. It’s nigh unthinkable now but I remember times when the internet didn’t exist, cell phones didn’t exist, I had no cable TV, no game console, and would only turn on my little black and white Mac to write a paper for school. We listened to music a lot, socialized in person, smoked a lot of… various things, had a lot of sex. It’s a rather poor trade we’ve made if you ask me.
There are people with functioning brain implants helping the blind to see, the deaf to hear, etc.
They don’t work nearly as well as the evolutionary naturally grown versions, they have some nasty technical problems, but they do work after a fashion.
The underlying assumption is “exponentially growing scientific knowledge and technical capability” will turn these dreams real - and it will, for some very small subset of what is being dreamed. I don’t think a practical “everybody gets one” smartphone in the brain is coming in the next 100 years, but who knows?
I yearn to go back to the days when a 2 minute lapse in focus/interest didn’t subconsciously send me reaching for my phone.
They’ve got drugs for that…
Yea. I have tried a few. But they either don’t work for me. Or the come down at the end of the day leaves me unable to do anything.
I know. My weakness isn’t necessarily waiting time, but time spent on dull work like housework. My brains starts going “BOORRING!”
“This shit ain’t nothing to me, man.”
yes doomers they’re coming for you doomers …
just because you’re paranoid …
bwahahahahahaaaaaa …
Too bad I can’t trust either the competence or intent of those with resources to create brain chips. Sorry teenaged me that desperately wanted true VR, but I’ll probably decline it even if it becomes a thing.
I’ll note here that VR goggles were “a thing” 10+ years ago, fast forward to today and they still pretty much suck, like they did back then. Yeah, marginal specs improvements, but the core weaknesses (limited FOV, lower than quality screen resolution, heavy) still apply.
And the fundamental weaknesses, like the disconnect between the game world you’re playing in and the physical world your body needs to play from. You can still run into things in the physical world and pass through things in the virtual world. No physical touch interaction at all from the VR world back to ours, other than vibrations. Still limited by gravity as well as the input devices being used. Can’t really experience non-human shaped things. Hell, even driving around in a vehicle, something VR is relatively good at, isn’t the same because you don’t feel the acceleration and g-forces.
Games like beat saber are the only ones it’s strong at, though I’m sure I’ve done many cuts that would have taken my arm or fatally wounded my legs.
I don’t think I would even trust an open source version that I fully control. Either it would be a pain in the ass to maintain it or it would eventually have some major vuln discovered and lead to people being hacked. Too risky.
We could be granting everyone in the world a high standard of living but instead we’re going to charge them to self-induce early onset neurodegenerative disease.
No, I don’t think I will
How anyone could trust them at this point blows my mind, outside of people who need a fucking hail mary like those with neurological disorders.
Idk. I don’t know if I’ll be able to stop from being a bigot towards people who get chips in their brain. Like I simply do not think I will be capable of holding my tongue. Again, unless the chip is literally the only reason they can live a normal life, those people shouldn’t be treated like people.
