Welcome to Capitalism, where you can lose your vision because some corporation didn’t get enough money.
Is this the innovation people keep talking about
Yes, Capitalism does in fact create innovation, in precisely the wrong direction.
Everything is a scam under capitalism.
I’d like a pair of bionic eyes without a Wi-Fi card, please
According to the article, the eyes are still working for now, but if something goes wrong they’re screwed.
Very tricky situation. Having the government do things like this is one option (although the government isn’t doing it), but having laws forcing these corporations to be open source is another tentative solution.
Audited open-source (software and hardware) + no auto-updates would be the only way I could trust-ish a private company (or a bourgeois government) with this. Unfortunately, the people who need this probably can’t afford to be cautious, but imagine what would happen if the eyes stopped working while the user was driving
I argue it needs to be free/libre software not just open source. Yes there is a difference; “Open Source” is usually used as a marketing term by companies and refers to software that is under a permissive license, which doesn’t necessarily grant the users any freedoms; It can still contain proprietary binaries or have strings attached in some other way. In other words it can still serve the interests of private person(s) by only releasing parts (usually non-crucial) of the source code.
Copyleft licenses are the only way to go here if you want software where the user has 100% control.
i bet it runs linux, i bet it can be easily hacked… because an item of this size & complexity of function cannot have a very secure connection and thus could probably easily be reverse engineered to connect to a raspberry posing as the company server. just man in the middle yourself…
Only if the company no longer runs the server, you can’t exactly reverse-engineer it because you don’t know what the server responds with to the client’s requests.
They weren’t joking when they said that disabled people face dystopic levels of suffering under capitalism. Pay to live, pay to see, pay to reduce pain, pay to breathe.
Cool, prepare to live in cyberpunk dystopia.
This is literally CP2077 Corpo intro when weird cucks in suits come and be like “You’re fired, all your implants will cease to function in 60 seconds, good luck”
This character from the Secret Life of Walter Mitty was an excellent portrayal of layoff consultants
What happens when you miss your neuralink payment?
Maybe they get to ‘forcibly employ’ your body to pay off debts.
We’ve already seen teledildonic chastity ransomware, I’m now waiting for limb rootkits.
It would be morbid but interesting to know if there are accidents caused by this, leading to litigation. Take the close call with the stairs in the article, or a car crash. How would an (e.g.) US court treat it? Do recipients sign away rights?
Purdue addicted a nation to oxy and the family got to keep their billions. Capitalists live by different rules.
I would not be surprised if the company forced the patients to sign a contract with a Limitation of Liability and Arbitration clause in there somewhere to prevent lawsuits.
capitalists will somehow make this the fault of the people who bought the bionic eyes to see
Have they considered simply stop being blind?
Of course. Clearly, they should’ve bought the company’s stock if they liked it so much.
Obviously they should have created a demand for bionic eyes.
Well I guess it was inevitable after corporations made consumer electronics “leased” rather than bought. Just look at the text for Windows 10 license for example. Or the notorious John Deere tractors. Prosthetics were a next logical step.
These corporations are a plague upon this earth. I’ve spent a couple years setting up my own servers running my own services, some of which I wrote myself (search engine), and buying open-source hardware to distance myself from them.
