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> Now I understand that they would be nothing more than an excuse to wire advertisements directly into our brains Unless you can afford the Premium+ subscripti
by dr_kiszonka 3y ago
> Now I understand that they would be nothing more than an excuse to wire advertisements directly into our brains
Unless you can afford the Premium+ subscription, of course.
- roarcher 3y agoWhich will eventually include "reduced advertising", which you can get rid of by upgrading to Premium+ Ultra.
- a_bonobo 3y agoand then the company goes under and you have a useless chip rotting in your brain! See https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
- HankB99 3y agoI think that someone would buy out the failed company and then suck up all of your thoughts so they could sell that to advertisers and maybe the police.
- rvnx 3y agoOther benefits for politics: if you are reluctant to go to war or planning to escape it, then you can be detected early and be sent to re-education camp (until thoughts injection is developed)
- roarcher 3y agoWhoa, I remember reading about these things in some "How Things Work" book when I was a kid. Sad to see that this is what became of them, but I'm not surprised.