I'm not surprised given the person in charge, but I still feel bad for the guy. Being almost completely paralyzed, it makes total sense to jump at the chance to get some normalcy back.
I didn't expect 85% of the wires to already detach at this point. In a just society, the whole company would be shut down and the CEO put into a bottomless pit.
the fucking trials out of australia where they successfully gave people back like their sight or hearing or whatever it was, and then the trials ended and they had to have the implants removed or disabled so the company didn't have to keep supporting them was the most heartbreaking thing I had read that month.
edit: I'm wrong it was stopping her debilitating seizures
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25/1073634/brain-implant-removed-against-her-will/
If this is what they do now to the test subjects imagine how much worse and more insidious it can get as the tech matures
Anybody involved with making or enforcing that decision should be thrown in an oubliette
they WILL use this against people in the future. corporate non-compliance or even dissent will have your implants shut off.
turns out a bunch of nerds have basically been gaming this out in sci-fi for decades
Sci Fi nerd reporting in: it literally never turns out good. We don't know enough about what's going on there to do ANY fucking around.
Just like in the hit graphic novel Neuromancer
It didn't stop her seizures, it predicted their occurance
Anyway after the American company Neuravista went bust there's been a lot of development in approaches which don't need brain implantation anyway:
The nature of implants is really grim - even Cochlear/hearing implants which are widely praised by people outside the Deaf community basically destroy and replace a considerable part of a person's remaining hearing ability.
Sound of music (2019) is a good film on that
yeah you're right I was lazy and didn't re-read the article when I posted it. But since she had effective medication she could take to stop them when the implant predicted them, its a bit potato potato. She got them under control in a way that was impossible before
I didn't know that about cochlear implants... geez