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From the moment I read "full broadband fidelity," I began looking at this press release as a product of dark-pattern science communications rather than an annou
by escape_goat 6y ago
From the moment I read "full broadband fidelity," I began looking at this press release as a product of dark-pattern science communications rather than an announcement of scientific progress. The news is that the connection is wireless and high-bandwidth. Low-bandwidth wireless communications have already succeeded elsewhere. Innovation could have occurred regarding the interface device in the brain, the broadcast chip in that device, the physical link link layer, the protocol layers above that, the external receiver, et cetera, but there are no details we can clean except that the connection is 'virtually' as good as a physically wired connection. Wherever details are missing, we can assume neither that they were overlooked by the writer, nor that they were deliberately left out. We can assume, however, that they did not contain any information which furthered the author's purpose.