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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 9 months ago by yesdogishere@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

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[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Generally, when I consider uploading my conciousness, I imagine being able to store it in an offline device connected to my body and used more to bypass slow organic breakdown

Any cybernetic upgrades that you can't, at a minimum, shut the connection to the internet off is not an upgrade because, well, they can send a killswitch or any other number of things