> someone with a little effort could hack my phone and cause it to malfunction in various ways Even with the best of intents, the actual makers of said phone (

> someone with a little effort could hack my phone and cause it to malfunction in various ways Even with the best of intents, the actual makers of said phone (and apps) sometimes end up causing it to malfunction in various ways... Let that sink in for a minute. Admittedly, bio-implants would probably fall under much higher reliability standards than mere external electronics, including user control of the hardware and software. But things like infrastructure (e.g. networks), everything "ambient" to the end device that's required for a true AR paradigm to exist, cannot be accelerated by wishful thinking (e.g. bandwidth, business model of currently leading companies, etc.) While it's crucial that we begin these ethical debates early on, preferably before it actually happens let alone scales, I think we're still a decently big "last-mile"away from an actual consumer-tsunami the likes of PCs or smartphones. Thinking 5 years for early adopter/high end devices, twice that for infra to follow and enable consumer-grade scaling. By that time, 2020-25-ish, we should have some medically-informed (in physical expertise and centennial empirical experience) ethically-decent legal/engineering framework to work with when it comes to intrusive implants. My personal guess is that we'll limit those to tiny <1mm devices that act as mere interfaces with external nodes.