simple@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoValve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this yearwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square281fedilinkarrow-up1598arrow-down122 cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 days agoKaren Sandler did a great talk on closed source software medical devices many years ago. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM This even more the case if it’s your brain! It probably won’t work for decades, but we should get house in order long before it does.
minus-squareutopiah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoLike https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete shown or https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/411102/neuroscience-technology-consumer-products-safety-maintenance more recently or the older 2010 paper “Predictors of Assistive Technology Abandonment” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400435.1993.10132205 ? Don’t be negative, it’s all good! /s
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoRight to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.
Karen Sandler did a great talk on closed source software medical devices many years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM
This even more the case if it’s your brain! It probably won’t work for decades, but we should get house in order long before it does.
Like https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete shown or https://www.vox.com/unexplainable/411102/neuroscience-technology-consumer-products-safety-maintenance more recently or the older 2010 paper “Predictors of Assistive Technology Abandonment” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400435.1993.10132205 ?
Don’t be negative, it’s all good! /s
Right to repair, and openness, is absolute must for devices being put into peoples bodies. The fight seams to not even started yet. Most people are completely asleep to issues right now.