Computers are great at brain augmentation devices - but if you spend all your time building the device, then you'll get a poor outcome and have wasted (most of)

Computers are great at brain augmentation devices - but if you spend all your time building the device, then you'll get a poor outcome and have wasted (most of) your life. That's the practical reason we want both mass produced hardware and transparent (and hence, controllable) hardware state. A world of augmented minds is much more problematic when a central authority can and does monitor everyone's mind, not the least of which because in such a state revolution would be trivial to eliminate even in it's earliest forms. And I believe all thinking humans have learned by now to distrust any system that can perpetuate itself so perfectly, and so indefinitely.