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Not only that but on the technical side it is a TERRIBLE idea.
Obsolescence is affecting all technology faster and faster. Would you fuse an iphone to your body? In 8 months they're releasing a new one. Even if you decide to go open source, you can't connect it to an OS or a computer because then updates are required
If it has network capabilities it needs to be constantly updated for security, or else your prosthetic leg becomes part of a botnet launching DDOS attacks like those toothbrushes. Even worse, what if instead of a ransomware attack it's literally becomes a ransom. Want your bionic heart to keep beating? Gonna have to pay the hacker who cracked it.
It gets even worse if the company that builds it goes belly up. At least with a peg leg you can carve a new one, once software gets involved you lose all control unless you're building it yourself.
Just last year Poland literally had to hire hackers to hack their own train because train manufacturers artificially locked them down when they were repaired by a third party.
ownership of electronics is getting absolutely shady fast and you want to integrate them into your body??? You want to give it access to your brain??? Imagine if someone hacks your brain computer interface Elon Musk!
Yeah, I foresee his implant giving its wearers some pretty gnarly cases of meningitis. I occasionally have to fix a halo device onto people with the use of skull pins. Basically a stainless steel pin that presses through the skin, making a small indention into the bone to grab onto.
The pin sites are super prone to infection, not exactly easy to keep the scalp sterile. Plus, the scalp is actually fairly elastic and moves around quite a bit. Anything that impedes the scalp from moving naturally typically causes a lot of irritation, which typically causes infections.
With the skull pins it's not that big of a deal. We can easily move the pin to a different site, and it's not like we've actually pierced the skull or the protection of the blood brain barrier.
Elons implant transects the blood brain barrier, creating an opening for bacteria to actually make it to The brain. It's basically the equivalent of walking around with a spinal tap.
Do you know any other adverbs?