UGH! imagine a BCI chip serving advertisements into your brain directly and recording everything from how you breathe to how you fuck to "personalize" said ads.
no, I love technology, but I will never bind a piece of tech directly into my brain. we failed with mobile phones and we WILL definitely fail with BCI chips, ON THE EXACT SAME SPOTS. they will be impressive, sure, but they will also hold us captive past user acquisition period
I said an interface, not a full blown computer. The idea would be to have a standard protocol so you can control the computer of your choice (which could run adless open source software) without having to touch a keyboard, look at a screen or use headphones/speakers.
Obviously we'd have to legislate so that the kind of ad ridden stuff you mention is not allowed but that is a separate problem.
I think it is interesting in a way that it could allow deaf, mute and blind people to communicate more easily to other non disabled people and vice-versa but I fear we might lose progressively more senses (we have already lost many compared to the wildlife surrounding us) and we would progressively all become deaf and mute and reliant on technology.
But I don't see how we can avoid this kind of technology to take over at some point.
> I said an interface, not a full blown computer.
does it matter? the moment my brain becomes a computer's peripheral (input and output alike), said computer can read from my brain and infer things I don't want it to infer.
> The idea would be to have a standard protocol so you can control the computer of your choice
good luck doing that without a regulatory push that's tenfold stronger than DMA. we are lucky to not have vendor-locked keyboards and mice.
> I think it is interesting in a way that it could allow deaf, mute and blind people to communicate more easily
...with the same research that has a HUGE potential for law enforcement/employer/adtech corp/Palantir/whoever to forcefully crack my brain open for them? no thanks I'd rather put `contentDescription` and `alt` properties of UI components as well as test the deaf/mute/blind experience rigorously than face BCI
> But I don't see how we can avoid this kind of technology to take over at some point.
so let's delay it for as long as we physically can!
I am not saying I want that, I am saying it will come sooner or later, and will probably be ready before everyone use vision pro or its alternatives.
> good luck doing that without a regulatory push that's tenfold stronger than DMA
The only way this would ever happen: Medicare and Medicaid
If they could require a baseline open standard to make a device eligible for reimbursement, then that could potentially sway the market.