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 threadOSIRIS 🎸 💻 🎙️

@purserj @DrCuriosity Yeah, this is tricky. Publicly financed medicine would have never invented this. But sooner or later companies like this either go bankrupt or spiral into some kind of decadence where profit outweighs benefit.

This is true of other publicly financed areas as well - digital tools for education etc.

Jan 23, 2023 at 11:12amWeb
Show threadDr. Curiosity 💻🔬Jan 23, 2023
@osiris @purserj
As a one-time CS Education PhD, can confirm. One of the platforms I used as the basis for a case study got bought and killed by Microsoft before the thesis was even finished its revisions.