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[–]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.