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What sci-fi-esque inventions are the most plausible and could happen soonest? (lemmy.world)

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we need teleportation frankly

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[-] bomberesque1@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Brain Machine Interface

Hopefully not from Elon Musk but he might well get there first

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

I'm good on things tied into the brain. Now things tied near the brain like sub vocalisation or little eye twitches or even somehow passive brain wave scans or something maybe. But actual hardware tied into my brain I'm gonna take a pass on.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I would think about genuinely completely open source (at every level, all software tooling needed, etc. The regulatory issues would obviously make that super hard though.

There absolutely isn't a company I'd trust with that.

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Basically yes. Theres no regulatory issue really. Theres just that companies refuse to loosen their steangehold on "intellectual property". Like that's the issue with basically all tech "innovations" they make things faster and more efficient for people with different goals than us. The Luddites weren't necessarily wrong to smash those machines.

I'd still prefer to keep any tech mods as peripheral as possible. Don't need my FOSS brainjack getting hacked because I missed a security update still. And if it does get hacked I want it to be quick outpatient to haul out and replace not brain surgery

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

My concern is that something I could trust would need to have a well structured organization running it (as is the case for plenty of other open source projects), and I think it would be difficult for such an organization to successfully manage such a project with all the laws all over the world about medical devices and devices implanted inside of people.

I'd absolutely prefer the actual interface being as limited as possible, with any actual signal processing or other chips being outside or at least surface level. But I just think it would be hard to navigate medical laws (which exist for good reason).

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I think a university could do it. But I see what you mean now.

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago

What about a bionic eyeball? (serious question)

[-] themelm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

If I had no other eyeballs probably. I would still hesitate if the hardware wasn't open ( I don't want an eye that they stop updating after 1 year or that gets ads when I switch insurance providers)

[-] nymwit@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Watch out on those terms and conditions. Before long you'll have to pay more to unlock an ad free vision experience that was previously ad free. Or maybe their licensing deal with Pantone or dolby vision will lapse and your "only licensed" capabilities will go away. Or maybe your one eye just veers off and focuses on any nearby advertisement that's part of the manufacturer's partner program and you literally could not take your eye off it? Non-partner brands are blurry and hard to see? I once dreamed of futuristic technological advances outside the gravity well of all consuming capitalism. Those were the days I tell ya!

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