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Its a pretty terrible problem when a medical device is implanted within you and no longer supported. I would not like to be that person.
by tristanb 3y ago
Its a pretty terrible problem when a medical device is implanted within you and no longer supported. I would not like to be that person.
- janice1999 3y agoIt already is: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
- ahmedfromtunis 3y agoI'm pretty sure whoever receives such device to help them move/see/hear or whatever again, would much more prefer having an "unsupported" device (however that may manifest itself), to not having it at all. Besides, I don't think devices of this nature would be subjected to the same market forces as smartphones or other devices, so cycles would be much longer and obsolescence wouldn't be a problem. Also, this is not the first time people would have electronics implanted into them for medical reasons.