I thought about this literally in the shower yesterday as I was trying to prop up my waterproof bluetooth speaker somewhere I can hear it clearly. I like listening to music or podcasts while I’m in the shower.
For some reason, the speaker didn’t want to stay in its usual place and kept sliding out.
Then it occurred to me. If I had a chip connecting my brain to my devices, I wouldn’t have to deal with any of this. I could, well, you get my meaning.
I won’t buy one from Elon Musk but the technology is tempting.
Something that will actually interface with your brain at a degree which enables audiovisual streaming at the quality we’re used to, and can be applied without major, multiple stage surgery is so far in the future, we’ll probably have a different relationship with our technology anyway.
Think how difficult to apply and use a cochlear implant is. It takes hours of difficult surgery, weeks of recovery, months, even years of adjustments to get something usable out of it, which still is far behind in quality compared to healthy hearing. We don’t even have a functioning visual implant technology similar to the cochlear one.
I’m trying to say, it’s too early to be scared. A healthy consideration of possibilities, both positive and negative, should be enough for now I think.