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‘You’ll hold out for a while’: Silicon Valley now pushing to implant chip in your brain, knows you’ll give in eventually (wegotthiscovered.com)
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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 18 hours ago

There are people with functioning brain implants helping the blind to see, the deaf to hear, etc.

They don't work nearly as well as the evolutionary naturally grown versions, they have some nasty technical problems, but they do work after a fashion.

The underlying assumption is "exponentially growing scientific knowledge and technical capability" will turn these dreams real - and it will, for some very small subset of what is being dreamed. I don't think a practical "everybody gets one" smartphone in the brain is coming in the next 100 years, but who knows?