Neuromancer 2022

The collapse of a startup leaves implanted medical devices in > 700 people

The unavailability of the proprietary SW needed to recalibrate the devices and maintain its effectiveness, and the draining of batteries, will leave them without treatment and with HW implanted in their bodies

They have to hack their own implants

And it is not an isolated case but a trend

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html

Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure

When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.

@pheras I suppose my first thought was escrow. But then also a seed bank. Paid membership of an organisation that holds the code for in the event of and carries out research/ updates. I think though this touches upon the ownership of medicine and whether something devised from and built upon research we perhaps all contribute to should be hived off. The result here is one small aspect of viewing medicine as discrete boxes of cures for sale to individual patients.