This is a terrible development for a number of reasons.
Lets assume the best case scenario and Elon is mega based.
You will own the neuralinks and have 100% control over them and it's output.
That's fine, everyone will want one and the cost will gradually reduce.
You won't be able to exist in society without one. Just like if you don't have an email address you would be physically unable to apply for 99.99% of jobs today.
Elon will eventually die and Neuralink will pass to new owners who will gradually change Neuralink from a based company to a globohomo company that can now automatically update your brain and everyone will take the "free" model because no-one will be able to partake in society without one.
Uncle Ted was right.
It doesn't matter what Elon's intentions are because he will eventually die and be replaced with someone with worse intentions.
In an optimistic scenario, a neuralink empowers the individual in the extreme. Coding projects that would be untenable now could become common place. Projects like rewriting the neuralink firmware by yourself.
Even that will eventually be curtailed as you'll enter a standardized environment, like iphones and the app store. If you don't have a standard iphone, nothing will accept it.
Running "normal" and jailbroken software on your own brain is very risky.
What, you don't use Jailbreak while you're on a Run, chummer? Running with a corp like a soykaffed wageslave might be more comfortable short-term, but it's a good way to get Geeked.
This is a terrible development for a number of reasons.
Lets assume the best case scenario and Elon is mega based.
You will own the neuralinks and have 100% control over them and it's output.
That's fine, everyone will want one and the cost will gradually reduce.
You won't be able to exist in society without one. Just like if you don't have an email address you would be physically unable to apply for 99.99% of jobs today.
Elon will eventually die and Neuralink will pass to new owners who will gradually change Neuralink from a based company to a globohomo company that can now automatically update your brain and everyone will take the "free" model because no-one will be able to partake in society without one.
Uncle Ted was right.
It doesn't matter what Elon's intentions are because he will eventually die and be replaced with someone with worse intentions.
Post-industrial society and its future is a terrifying reality.
In an optimistic scenario, a neuralink empowers the individual in the extreme. Coding projects that would be untenable now could become common place. Projects like rewriting the neuralink firmware by yourself.
Even that will eventually be curtailed as you'll enter a standardized environment, like iphones and the app store. If you don't have a standard iphone, nothing will accept it. Running "normal" and jailbroken software on your own brain is very risky.
What, you don't use Jailbreak while you're on a Run, chummer? Running with a corp like a soykaffed wageslave might be more comfortable short-term, but it's a good way to get Geeked.