William HughesThis #SomeMoreNews episode is about #brainchips but one interesting your they touch on is how miracle #medicaldevices that are demonstrated during feel-good #news stories like #amputee #veterans getting a state-of-the-art #bionic limb don't actually get to keep it.
So I would like to suggest to all #journalists out there who get a chance to cover these breakthroughs: specifically ask the people in charge on camera if the patient gets to keep the equipment they're demonstrating, or if they're going to receive one free or what.
Because that's some bullshit, y'all. These companies going out and farming good will by tricking is into believing they've transformed a person's life but really they only teased them with what life could be like. They're Lucy to the patient's Charlie Brown just holding that football...