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[–]Lovebirds_fury 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I seriously doubt people will accept that. It's one thing to be exploited with subscription services. Your bank account slowly bleeding. Money you can't see and you are less reluctant to spend. A chip in your brain is something more tangible. Nobody is going to undergo surgery for entertainment.

Even if you spend money in entertainment, you know that's something you can always cancel. If money is tight you can cut off unnecessary expenses. You can't do that with a brain chip. Unless the person is exceptionally stupid or they don't know what to do with their money, they won't get it. So that becoming trendy is even more unlikely

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    [–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I don't think most of the first world will have chips on their heads, that would require regulation.

    Comparing that to current technology... we still have games being released to last-gen consoles, ps4 and xbox one. It's completely possible to just outright not phase out a technology just because the new one is superior.

    Also SAO exists. Our narrative in this discussion would be a lot different if that anime didn't exist. The fact it does allows us to speak to the young generation in a language they understand on the dangers of these devices.

    [–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I would agree but only in so far as we are pretending the technology actually works.

    If we pull out of sci-fi land back into the real world here the idea of creating any sort of computer to brain interface is still well in it's infancy. Especially since we don't really understand how the brain works.

    Stuff like, wearable electrodes that can detect brainwaves and use them to control things, like say, giving a paraplegic the ability to move their chair (or more likely a mouse cursor) by thinking is potential possible as a technology to be perfected. Stuff like, artificial eyes for blind people somewhat less so (there's some interesting ideas in the field of creating a kind of Sonic or tactile feedback that could convert visual data into sound or something you could touch as a way to let blind people "see". But that's not really a brain chip. The idea I saw that seemed to work the best was making some weird wearable tongue thing that let blind people taste light.)

    Now weird shit like this will probably take off on the market for novelty stuff. Be a long while before it's viable for what it's supposed to be viable for.

    I think wearable tech will be trendy but it won't get much mass market appeal beyond a few basic stand out technologies, such as a hearing aide that automatically translates foreign languages for you. If that tech can be made to work well it will be very popular.

    Though more likely some kind of smart glasses that add subtitles would be more practical.

    [–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I think you're just on copium juice 😭

    [–]hiimacosmocoin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I seriously doubt people will accept that.

    I would've agreed before 2021. No, they'll follow the leader for sure. Especially if they discount/free the surgery. Maybe say it'll help detect covancer. You're aware there are already people doing chips in their hand to make transactions easier? Switzerland I think, can't be bothered to find it right now.