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The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up (www.wired.com)
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The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up::Thanks in part to Elon Musk, the field of brain-computer interfaces has captured both public and investor interest, with a cadre of companies now developing implantable devices.

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[–] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I love the idea of augmentation, but not from any corporation.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Free open source cybernetics will be the shit in like 40 years if humanity hasn't been completely wiped out by then.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago

Just not super excited for the back alley ripperdocs

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

Can't wait to debug and rice Arch OS on my brain chip

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Just in time for me to jack in at a retirement home!

[–] pendingdeletion@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

How would you feel about an implant being offered by an independent street vendor?

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, BioDyne and Arasaka make a pretty high-quality product

[–] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

All the people who I hacked the eyeballs of disagree.