James PurserJan 23, 2023

Here we go again.

This time its an implant to help people manage cluster headaches. The company that made the devices has collapsed leaving 700 people with implants and no way to manage them.

There has to be a better way to deal with this.

#disability #righttorepair #dutyofcare

Hat tip to @DrCuriosity for the link

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.

Show threadAnthony B,
@purserj @DrCuriosity not *quite* as grim as the previous one with the eye implants, but still plenty awful
Jan 23, 2023 at 8:35amTusky
Show threadAnthony B,Jan 23, 2023
@purserj @DrCuriosity previously
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

IEEE Spectrum
Show threadJames PurserJan 23, 2023

@swearyanthony @DrCuriosity yeah spoke about that here

https://www.angrybeanie.com/news/how-do-you-deal-with-abandonware

How do you deal with Abandonware?

Abandonware sucks when it's your TV, imagine what it feels like when it's your Eyes

Show threadJames PurserJan 23, 2023

@swearyanthony @DrCuriosity there's going to be more and more of this.

Can you imagine what neuralink is going to look like?

Show threadI love this, so IJan 23, 2023
@purserj @swearyanthony @DrCuriosity *screams in twitter*
Show threadJames PurserJan 23, 2023
@jpm @swearyanthony @DrCuriosity you don't even need to scream in twitter, imagine these devices with subscription models
Show threadI love this, so IJan 23, 2023
@purserj @swearyanthony @DrCuriosity *screams in Tesla*
Show threadAnthony B,Jan 23, 2023
@jpm @purserj @DrCuriosity imagine the monthly subscription for the Neuralink MonkeyKiller2000 brain implant
Show threadAnthony B,Jan 23, 2023
@purserj @jpm @DrCuriosity as a first step, regulators should require that as a condition of being licensed, all of the tech goes into escrow, so that if they go out of business/decide to stop supporting it, others can pick it up
Show threadI love this, so IJan 23, 2023

@swearyanthony @purserj @DrCuriosity I’ve been wondering this, but I really don’t know who the “others” should, or even could, be.

The 3 possible places it would go are either a government department for care and feeding for the next 100 or so years keeping up with technology changes (lol), another company who may or may not care about making more money on it, or open source and then somehow get a regulatory handle on all the possible “improvements” that happen

Show threadAnthony B,Jan 23, 2023
@jpm @purserj @DrCuriosity yeah that's a whole ball of interesting problems in and of itself. Like sure, in theory you could rely on open source folks, but regulatory approval (also get back to me when Linux has working audio)